What do you do when you’re powerful but a regional player doesn’t bow infront of your own genocide threats.
Do you nuke them because that’s the only way to silence them?
Because now if you can’t make your opponent bow down and your ego is tall, you appear to be a weak player in the eyes of entire world.
And eventually they start coming after you.
You don’t have a strong history of civilization.
Your (non existent) culture is dead.
All you have left is tech and bombs.
No humanity left.
No morality left since 1945.
You use what you have.
Tech to build wealth.
Bomb to destroy nations.
I mean your survival would be at threat if you didn’t had either of these.
And when survival is at threat, humans do crazy thing. That’s what biology and history suggests.
Will history repeat again?