This is an academic-style test question.
Three allies will each be described with three separate policy relationships in opposition (or not) to Existential Threats to USA and the so-called Free World of EU + Five I’s. (You know, like ‘Western Civilization’ aka WWSOG-BOG.)
ALLY I
They have far more than enough money to purchase many long-range Surface-to-Surface missiles to attack Infrastructure and even Cities of the INVADERS – SHOULD THEY BE INVADED. (Neither threatening aggressor nor threatened ally get much anecdotal ‘Media Attention.’
ALLY II
They have developed their own S-to-S long-range missiles (and their own atomic retaliatory defense weapons as has also Switzerland forty or fifty years ago). They have a strong but costly and IMPERFECT missile defense jointly developed with the USA. They have been attacked with missiles from the north and the west intermittently for over four decades. They are encouraged to stop all of their retaliatory military actions as quickly as they begin politically by the WWSOG-BOG and most especially with propaganda (i.e., PRESSURE APPLIED via EVIL SCUMBAG PRESS AL JAZEERA-STYLE FAKE NEWS DEFAMATORY 24/7 COVERAGE).
ALLY III
They receive for never-to-be-repaid ‘IOUs,’ long-range S-to-S attack missiles (and many other long-range projectile weaponry) which they continually fire into the Infrastructure and Cities within the threatening country’s territorial integrity. They also receive virtually all necessary funding for their own civil government from Western Civilization (WWSOG-BOG) – our Ruling Class will not tolerate their bureaucrats both actively paid and in their pensions to go without money.
[A little over a year ago, around summer of 2023, a Polish financial publication revealed that Ally III had over $39 billion of foreign reserves and gold bullion. (That gold bullion is much more valuable today than last year.) Last year’s $39+ billion was the largest amount in the 30+ year history of their Central Bank.
[American journalist Gonzalo Lira died in their prisons without benefit of an English speaking or Spanish speaking lawyer. Furthermore, they no longer have regularly scheduled Free Elections (as per USA in 1864 during our Civil War), opposition parties, or opposition media or any international requirement to respect the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of ‘minorities’ within their borders as defined in 1993. (They may have established the first example of the President-for-Life in Western Civilization.)]
Question 1: Is a complex reality really impossible to notice without being adamantly and continually ‘advocated’ via the EVIL SCUMBAG PRESS 24/7 FAKE NEWS?
Question 2: How would you rate the Existential Threats to Western Civilization given the four following hypothetical forces: