[Psalm 73]

If the attack on Kadena didn't trigger a massive counter-battery response on Red China's military infrastructre, the attck on a carrier task force surely would.
We have ,many more assets in the region than are publicly known, and Japan would VERY quickly become a major player.
Even with an America-hating President like O, China would end up badly bloodied.
The same mistake the Japanese made in 1941.

[sukhoi-30mki]

Back in 41, people in the US and the wider West had greater tenacity and could digest casualties. It’s not the same now. Look at Iraq and Afghanistan.

[Antoninus]

We have ,many more assets in the region than are publicly known, and Japan would VERY quickly become a major player.

What's wrong with the scenario outlined above is that it assumes that everything China does works and goes right, while everything we do goes wrong. That is possible--but not likely.