You want to know what actual toughness looks like? It looks like a Vietnamese woman in a tunnel, three meters underground, while B-52s try to collapse the earth above her, continuing to work. It looks like a Cuban doctor going to West Africa during an Ebola outbreak when Western governments were still arguing about who should go. It looks like a Chilean socialist, Salvador Allende, broadcasting on the radio as the coup closes in, telling his people that he will not resign, that he will not flee, that history is on their side, and then dying at his post. It looks like the people of Gaza continuing to document their own deaths so the world cannot say it did not know. It does not look like a man in a bunker giving the order for an airstrike on people who cannot reach him. It does not look like a government that tortures prisoners and then classifies the evidence. It does not look like an empire that can destroy a country from 30,000 feet and calls the distance from the consequences "strategic." The people with the most weapons in the room are almost never the toughest people in the room. The toughest people in the room are almost always the ones who had no weapons and remained standing anyway. History is extremely consistent on this point.