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Quote by: ByaKya  ROFL. Hows that nuclear factor working out for the US in Iraq?
25,000 dead and wounded, billions upon billions lost, allies have lost respect for us, and enemies no longer fear us.
And no matter what, China and Russia still have their sights set on us because our leaders share your attitude that we SHOULD dominate the planet.
There is no way we can take out either countries entire nuclear weapons arsenal |
Iraq was a mistake. Anyway, we haven't achieved nuclear supremacy yet. In my U.S. our conventional troops would never be used except in the rarest of circumstances. Only the special forces and the threat of total destruction would be needed to keep governments that value their lives
Did you read the article? Russia as a whole is in decay. We are disposing of their weapons for them. They can't afford to maintain their weapons, much less improve them. They have most of their weapons in missile silos, easy targets. Our SSN's track their few, outdated submarines constantly. China is worse, they have all their missiles in silos, almost all of which we know of. The only way they could hide their arsenal is to make dummy silos, but they could never make enough to exhaust The U.S.'s missiles. And, as for the few missiles that would undoubtedly get few, that's what the new missile defense systems are for. While they could by no means take the waves of missiles coming from a fully armed russia, the few that survive a pre-emptive strike would be textbook cases. Obviously this attack is a huge risk, and I'm not saying we should do it or that it's right.
Of course, one of the flaws is, I get the impression that some governments really would test us until the use of a nuke was necessary, an undesirable thing.