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>>19380530
We could bomb your capital city to rubble and you would not be able to do anything to us in return.

>>18901470
This.

Quite frankly, the EU can bitch at us when it can field a military that rivals ours. There was a time when the United States used to fear Great Britain as a superpower. There were contingency plans in the Department of Defense for if Britain decided to invade the United States across the Canadian border. Now? There is no European nation that inspires fear.

How many of you fuckers unironically want war with China? Because that will be the big dog. War between the United States and China would be a REAL war, not these little popgun skirmishes with inferior powers.

What you all seem to want is Great Power war. War between the mighty nations of the Earth. Your best bet for that is the United States going to war with China, so I suppose that's what you all want.

If you're lucky, you might get to massacre civilians in the bombed out ruins of Shanghai. Assuming it just gets bombed, rather than nuked.

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>>18683242
As promised:

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>>18339485
>Certainly not a hot war

I absolutely think hot war is not out of the question. Japan is inking a defense pact with Taiwan as we speak. The South China Sea is crawling with warships.

My own take is that if the United States thinks it can beat China in a war, it will. It's already got allies of convenience in the form of Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam, and the Philippines. The French and the British are likewise present in those waters so they'd be on board too. And India is another potential US ally, which is very convenient because they could instantly open up a second front.

America brooks no rivals. I can absolutely see the US wanting to crush China, one way or the other. Trump started it and Biden doesn't seem to be backing off. At minimum I think a limited naval engagement in the South China Sea is more than a little likely. At the highest level China's Pacific Coast cities might be bombed, including Shanghai.

Obviously the threat of nuclear retaliation from China is very high. Most of their nukes don't have the range to hit the US mainland, but they could potentially threaten Hawaii and definitely threaten Japan and South Korea. Not to mention North Korea would almost certainly help China, which means Seoul is probably screwed. But the United States has invested in ballistic missile defenses in the past, so perhaps they think they could endure the challenge.

It would be an immense mess that would alter the geopolitical order. But like I said, the US brooks no rivals. If it feels like China can't be dealt with any other way but militarily, there WILL be war, however unthinkable some might believe it to be.