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You're not thinking about the other wars we want to fight after the wars we are currently fighting now.
by ProAm 6y ago
You're not thinking about the other wars we want to fight after the wars we are currently fighting now.
- tyingq 6y agoSorry...what countries?
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoChina, so we can defend Taiwan without having to go nuclear to do it. Russia, over the rest of the Ukraine. Perhaps Iran, if we have to stop their nuclear program by force, or some other contingency.
- tyingq 6y agoI just don't see the US fighting China or Russia in a direct, conventional weapons conflict. How does it not escalate?
- ProAm 6y agoDoesn't matter if its direct or another proxy war, its still war.
- tyingq 6y agoProxy wars are easier to avoid escalation. I suspect that's one of the main reasons for them.
- onepointsixC 6y agoIt doesn't escalated because neither Moscow nor DC are willing to go nuclear over Tallinn while Beijing is overwhelmingly inferior in their nuclear capability compared to either.
- tyingq 6y agoI don't know that we have a good historical example to confirm that. I remain skeptical that we could have direct fighting between American and Russian/Chinese soldiers/aircraft/etc and somehow keep that in a box. The Cuban missile crisis was insanely tense, and no real shots were exchanged.
- jboog 6y agoChina can't even field a blue water Navy and their Air Force is about 20-30 years behind the US and its allies. We don't need an F-35 or another 2 Trillion dollar procurement process to sink literally anything China wants to put in the water.