Threats like enforcing economic sanctions against the US to crash it's economy and setting up military bases in Canada and Mexico to threaten the US with war.
"sociopathic nut-heads". There you go again.
"To retain their gains all they had to do was behave …"
You mean if they totally capitulated to US and Israeli demands there would be peace. No, wrong again. If they give in it would only encourage the US to issue another set of humiliating demands. Of course it's possible they will capitulate to US demands, but it won't help them.