Americans afraid of China

[Dayton3]

Mommy dearest told me some time ago...
"the next war will be 'one flash and you're ash'."

Mommy dearest sounds like an idiot.

 

[Silver Cat]

To start with, this once again shows your extreme ignorance and obsession./ What makes you think that only the US would nuke China if China nuked Taiwan? Because I can think of at least two other nations off the top of my head that would more than likely join in and nuke China as well.

You see, this is your biggest failure. For some idiotic reason, you think that the entire world is a vacuum, and only the actions of China and the US have any impact. And that for fear of retaliation the US would not react to anything that China did. And that is why you will always fail, it is called an almost sociopathic disconnect with reality.

Oh, it's just an artificially simplificated, may be even, scholar's example. The real situation is much more complicated.

Here is a much more realistic response. China nukes Taiwan. After a quick conference as a show of support and clear condemnation the US decides to respond with 2 nukes on industrial or port cities in response. Followed by France and the UK doing the same thing to drive home their own message that such will not be tolerated.

If you can count, that is six nukes on six cities, by three nations. For some reason you seem to completely forget that there are other nuclear powers out there, and they are US allies and not Chinese allies. Both of which also have long standing interests in that very region of the world, and would react just as strongly if not even more so than the US would.

You, there is a problem here. For any democratically elected government, and for the most of dictatorships, "protection of our citizens" is much more important goal, than "killing of foe's civilians". Therefore the first strike (for both sides) must be counter-force to decrease the possible retaliation.
The practical problem with the UK is that their only Vanguard isn't at position to attack China.

If course you also believe that if Might China nuked Japan, the US would not do a damned thing but simply run away because China is so mighty.

In the case of Chinese aggression against Japan, the option one - "Let's fight the war against China, we can lose 3 million max, but surely win" - obviously is on the table, the option two - "We can lose at least 30 million, but likely win" may be on the table, may be not, but the option three - "We'll lose at least 300 million, obviously lose the war but punish those dirty commies" is clearly not on the table.