Other than nukes, the USA is a paper tiger. All they can use against China is ICBMs and other long range missiles. They're incapable of an ocean-to-land invasion because China, Russia, Iran, etc. can all sink the entire US ship fleet with hypersonic missiles. A handful of nukes or a bunch of regular missiles would take out the US positions in the Philippines, Japan, ROK, etc.
Basically, in terms of modern total warfare, all the USA has for leverage is MAD, which prevents total war.
/prc/ -- China General
Brody Long
Landon Smith
The USA is a paper tiger period, its nukes are outdated and rusty, they won't use them
Mason Martinez
That's not something we can count on. If even a tenth of their nuke stockpile is still functional, it could still destroy civilization as we know it.
Chase Turner
so what would happen? Would they try to naval invade only to get wiped out? Or would china or russia strike at the US homeland?
Ethan Martinez
The top brass are stupid yes, but they don't have the guts to actually destroy humanity
Jaxon Watson
China needs to return to Maoist principles. Goddamn it. Are there even still Maoist purists in the Communist Party of China?
Caleb Lee
Colton Morris
Your opinion contradicts the entire past century of communist analysis of MAD. The USSR, PRC, DPRK, Cuba, and all other socialist states concluded that the USA was serious about nuclear warfare, and so they took the threat seriously as well.
Henry Barnes
War between nuclear powers doesn't necessarily have to go nuclear though
Zachary Gonzalez
but it will, inevitably