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I guess we'll find out before too long, but you're overestimating the Chinese military's strength, and the US's determination to win at all costs. An attack on

I guess we'll find out before too long, but you're overestimating the Chinese military's strength, and the US's determination to win at all costs. An attack on the US mainland would absolutely be met with a full-scale nuclear attack; the US has never been attacked on its own soil before in the modern age, except for 9/11, and the results there were catastrophic. A serious attack would be all-out war to the end, regardless of any long-term consequences for humanity.

mellavora 4y ago
> the US has never been attacked on its own soil before in the modern age, except for 9/11, and the results there were catastrophic. except for when the Brits burned Washington DC in Aug 1814. And there was this little thing at someplace named after a rental car company, "Alamo" I think. You could argue that the wars with the various indigenous people were not fought on US soil, because the soil wasn't "ours" until after we beat them. Oh, wait, you said "in the modern age". Ok, so since WWI, no one has attacked the US. So Pearl Harbor doesn't count?
- helloworld11 4y ago
  >So Pearl Harbor doesn't count? For one thing, Hawaii wasn't a U.S state at the time. Secondly, that's still far from the mainland U.S, an attack on which would provoke a different sort of response.
- popularonion 4y ago
  The vast majority of the mainland US hasn’t experienced war in over a century, which is an extremely special geopolitical situation that hardly ever gets talked about.