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except USSR had about 300 million whereas China has a BILLION and a HALF, mostly men. They can afford to lose a few hundred million, we can.t

except USSR had about 300 million whereas China has a BILLION and a HALF, mostly men. They can afford to lose a few hundred million, we can.t

With the current balance of firepower a full exchange would wipe China off the map and leave us devastated. China has around 240 nukes. Less than a quarter of that are deliverable to the US. Many of those rely on getting aircraft on one way flights through US airspace. Possible but they all won't get through.

The US has over 2000 that could hit China. And another 6000 in storage that could be activated for a second strike. In a full war we would be devastated, the Chinese would be exterminated. The Chinese are very good at math.

They will use economics. That is a fight they can win, win easily, and be better off when the fighting is over than when they started. They will also use intermediaries. The Chinese will fight America to the last Iranian.

What does China gain from a war with the U.S.? We are making them wealthy. War with the old Soviet Union would have much more likely as the demise of the corrupt communist system could be seen years before it happened. The leaders of the Soviet Union had to know that their system was inherently flawed and unworkable. Marxism is a the direct opposite of free-market economics and therefore a logical enemy. It was them or us, and we won.

But China junked Marxist economics after Mao croaked and is now on track to be the no. 1 economy in the world in about a decade (largely thanks to Obama and the rest of the Dems). Why would they want a war with the U.S.?