I am subscribed to bothThis is untrue.
We've flexed our muscle using soft power all the time
This is why you need to stay off of Infowars and read more of The Economist, Bloomberg, or read whats going on with the State Department.
If u call holding someone up with a gun and NOT shooting them "soft power" then yes we use soft power all the time
Germany didn't have to point to its nuclear arms or make implicit threats to get everyone to hand over their sovereignty for this EU bullshyt. That's soft power.