Quote (bogie160 @ 3 Jun 2022 18:15)
1. This is second most ridiculous thing I've read today (#1 is below). Biden would by publicly hanged if he allowed every capital in Europe to be nuked into oblivion while the United States sat around and jerked itself off.
2. China and Japan are antagonists. History is an important subject, you really should do more to educate yourself. Occupying a country as large and isolated as Japan is very difficult. The United States was only in a position to do it ~80 years ago, late in a global war, after Japan's military resources had been all but exhausted, and at the expected expense of some million American lives. China would find that sort of undertaking orders of magnitude more difficult than Russia is finding Ukraine.
3. What does the US military have to do with Portland? Your hypothetical is that China launches nuclear weapons against the United States. My response is to say that China would be destroyed. Who intends to occupy a nuclear wasteland?
1. It's Biden's actions that are leading to the potential for nuclear deployment, genius. And the moment we made any attempt to respond to Russia hitting European NATO nations, they'd counter launch at us. How is this hard for you?
2. Japan is nothing but a footnote to China at this point. China can flood Japan with 3x it's population overnight, should the US remove the 7th Fleet. This is not the Mongols we're talking about. China has far more than enough ships, weapons, and jets. The 7th is the only thing that has prevented it for several years. And the assumption that the Chinese would invade for profit is misguided. The history is long, and China has not forgotten. Would you like to try again?
3. Easily the most boneheaded claim of all. I suppose it's not a large shock, but let's see if we can sort a few things out... First, China can now launch nukes into the US itself from mainland China. That's number one. Number 2 would be that China has the world's largest navy. Three would be that China has 5x the US population. Four would be that the wargame simulations have been run, and it would be absolutely nothing for China to destroy every US base in Asia within minutes of each other. The majority of Wargames has us on the losing side in a conventional war vs China. Our only advantage was Nukes. But at this point, according to Department of Defense estimates, China has some 700 odd deliverable nukes. They have enough delivery systems to shoot over half of them into the US, and they have both subs and bombers that can deliver the rest. It is now completely uncertain if the US could even respond to defend itself, should China opt for an all out nuclear assault. And much of our nuclear defense system is set up for an older time, and the hypersonic delivery systems of the Chinese are not something we're necessarily prepared to shoot down.
But hey, you know everything. So it's no worries. I'm sure we can just keep pumping weapons and money into Ukraine as long as possible until Russia opts to respond, and we'll find out.