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Yeah. That's one of like 5 fatal problems with it.
Another one being that our whole approach is deterrence. No one is making continuous Israel-style rocket attacks on the continental US because their government, and possibly their country, would be no more after a week had passed after they'd done it. Although, give it a few years, and they might learn that it's okay.
Trump inhabits a world where people can take shots at you all the time, because no one respects you, and it hurts you, because you're fragile, and so you have to put up these absurd over-the-top defenses to it all the time or else you'll get crushed by the wailing, painful weight of it all. I suspect that somewhere in his affinity for this solution is that he projects that kind of model even onto geopolitics, when the US military has an infinitely better model for dealing with the threatening actors it has to contend with.