[toldnotmywrath]

I think the reasoning is that if you don't make an adventure like this painful, the US will not think twice about returning again.

[andriy_koval]

Its way more painful for rest of the world except Russia, and not US. They will make little pain on US, and make world and neighbors extremely angry on them.

[bitroughj]

Only someone entirely ignorant of history would embrace that reasoning.

[watwut]

Yeah, I think they concluded that measured responses before just made Trump think escalating is safe.

And like, Trump always escalates if he thinks he can.