we would immediately blow the 3 Gorges Dam completely?
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Totally destroying 7 cities and killing an estimated 430 million people. Naturally, China would respond with every nuclear weapon at their disposal. Therefore by blowing the dam, you are arguing for the start of a nuclear war? Are you insane or just ignorant?
Not advocating for doing it; would the credible threat of it absolutely being done restrain the Chicons from ever attempting forced reunification of Taiwan? There is much in this world that is insane yet passes for sane in the name of greater good.
Is mutual assured destruction sane? Yet has it not kept the peace? Think deeper about it
How serious are we about preventing forced reunification?
Who else would dependably do it?
Would the CCP call our bluff and see it happen?
We firebombed Dresden, Tokyo, etc. We nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We would have kept going as supplies of missiles material allowed until Japan surrendered or there was nothing left worth wasting incredibly valuable atomic bombs on. What good was sanity if it falls short of our policy goals?