Even if we were responsible for “maintaining the peaceful status quo in the South and East China seas and the Taiwan Strait,” which we are not, we cannot do so.
We are far more heavily outgunned in the SCS than is Ukraine against Russia.
Not only have we no answer to an opening salvo of 30,000 IRBMs that knock out our bases, but our only choices would then be to back down or launch a 100% suicidal nuclear attack on the Mainland.
PS our ships are fewer, older, and weakly armed, our missiles are a generation behind China’s, and since we deindustrialized, we can’t fight a war against the world’s leading industrial nation.
Even if we were responsible for “maintaining the peaceful status quo in the South and East China seas and the Taiwan Strait,” which we are not, we cannot do so.
We are far more heavily outgunned in the SCS than is Ukraine against Russia.
Not only have we no answer to an opening salvo of 30,000 IRBMs that knock out our bases, but our only choices would then be to back down or launch a 100% suicidal nuclear attack on the Mainland.
PS our ships are fewer, older, and weakly armed, our missiles are a generation behind China’s, and since we deindustrialized, we can’t fight a war against the world’s leading industrial nation.