America would do everything it possibly could to avoid a nuclear exchange. It's literally the only feasible military threat to the country. As long as nukes rem

America would do everything it possibly could to avoid a nuclear exchange. It's literally the only feasible military threat to the country. As long as nukes remain taboo, America gets to play world police and mostly get away with being a bully in some places, because what are you going to do, fight them? If you are willing to die to American soldiers 10:1 like the NVA or most of the middle east, you can prevent America from "winning", but you're still going to be living in a bombed out hellhole while teens share celebrity gossip in American homes with zero fear for their lives.