re: #58 Killgore Trout

He’s under tremendous pressure militarily and politically to respond with force, but I expect the diplomats to cool things down. That will make it tougher for him politically, but will avert a wider conflict for now.

Of course, that very aversion to war means that the North will see this as yet another sign that their strategy of provocation works and will continue pressing their luck until the South does eventually respond.