I'm not saying it's 100% real world logical, but there's enough reason within the context to say why they didn't do this and that, rather than just dismissing it outright.
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1) The Red Phone -- Major corporations, governments and the military always have secure channels within themselves and among each other to communicate these issues and cut through the bureaucracy.
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To the world leaders yes, not small deployments.
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2) Cost Benefit Analysis -- What's the cost of believing vs. the cost of not acting?
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This one could go either way.
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3) Magnitude of Response -- Tied to #2 and direct response to your query above, from past chapters we know Objects have weapons that are not meant to be used to fight other Objects but against conventional arms or infantry
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Except we know that these Objects were specifically deploy to deter against other Objects or big weapon attacks, not infantry which means they would be equipped as such.
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4) Contingencies / Other Resources -- Even if you can't deploy another object all of these nations have other resources they could deploy. It's highly unlikely that with so many personnel to protect there isn't bountiful "conventional" military force to deploy in this instance
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The majority of the island's defenses are Unmanned vehicles, the security personnel are mostly privately hired by the Organizers.
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5) The very notification to each of these nations of a potential 3rd party attempting to provoke global war .. would already defeat it's point. It was a terrible plan to begin with -- they already said the laser wouldn't be enough to take out an Object. Dissemination of the information, even if they didn't act on it, but told their Objects simply to "stand by" and "be prepared for evasion action" would make the plan useless.
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Again, there still is a trust issue- What if you send them this information in order to lock down the Objects' movement? To make them be on a look out for an attack that isn't going to happen while you carry out some other plan in the opposite direction?