Now that China’s growing power exposes their incompetence, the establishment strategists will risk nuclear war with China to save their reputations.

Spengler writes,

None of the tit-for-tat in the South China Sea means anything: If the US Navy tries to stop China from seizing Taiwan, and China destroys US capital ships, we go straight to a nuclear exchange. In plain-text translation, this means the following: The United States cannot defend Taiwan by conventional means—not against 1,300 missiles on 350 launchers with ranges up to 3,200 kilometers, 60 very quiet submarines, hundreds of surface ships, the Russia-built and highly effective S-400 air defense system, and roughly 1,000 air superiority fighters.

But China would be fighting on its coast with short logistical lines, and America would be attempting to project power 7,000 miles from San Diego. Any conflict therefore would instantly escalate to the level of nuclear exchange.

Now that China’s growing power exposes their incompetence, the establishment strategists will risk nuclear war with China to save their reputations.

Read more here: https://asiatimes.com/2022/01/epidemic-of-insanity-strikes-americas-leaders/