What would a war with China look like?
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons says that China has 260 warheads. “Its warheads are deliverable by air, land, and sea.” Business Insider reports, “China now has dozens of nuclear-capable missiles that could target almost the entirety of the US, according to the Department of Defense’s 2015 report on the Chinese military. “
Global Firepower.com reports that China is ranked 3rd out of 126 countries for its military capability and available firepower.
The United States is ranked 1st for military capability and available firepower. Click Global Firepower.com to compare the U.S. with China.
Don’t forget that China would be fighting near and from its home base, but the United States is more than 6,000 miles away, and China has 4 ballistic missile submarines with more to be commissioned and more in development. They are not as advanced as America’s SSBNs but they still exist and are a threat. National Interest.org says, “Even if China acquires the technical capacity necessary for a survivable sea-based nuclear deterrent, the highly centralized PLA has no operational experience in maintaining deterrence patrols on the open seas. China has traditionally relied exclusively on its land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) for deterrence and thus has never confronted the existential question of whether to predelegate SLBM launch authority to submarine commanders in case of crises.”
According to NuclearForces.org, Russia has 112 SLBMs.
Why would Vladimir Putin want the United States to break with its old allies and start a war with China?
I think Putin wants to get rid of China and the United States as military powers. Newsweek reports “How Trump is Alienating Allies and making China Great Again.”
Without its historical allies, the United States would probably win the war with a Pyrrhic victory (a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat) leaving Russia with the most powerful military on the planet and the only super power.
The U.S. would go after China’s infrastructure like the Three Gorges Dam (China has more dams than any country in the world), and end up destroying most of China’s infrastructure (dams, roads, airports, railroads, the power grid, bridges, etc.) destroying China as a modern technological state and economic power and plunging most of the survivors into extreme poverty.
Global Firepower ranks Russia’s military as #2.
Economically, many U.S. corporations do business in China. To understand how a war with China would devastate many U.S. corporations that make money from Chinese consumers, read this CNN Money report. In addition, The Wall Street Journal reveals how important Chinese consumers are to General Motors and Ford that sell millions of cars in China.
In fact, according to StatisticsTimes.com, the United States has the largest GDP in the world and China is in a distant second place.
In 2016, the United States had a GDP of $18,561,934 billion vs. China with $11,391,619 billion.
Where does Putin’s Russia fit on that global GDP list? 12th place with $1,267,754 billion.
If you look at the list, you will quickly learn that seven countries with GDP’s larger than Russia are historically allies of the United States, allies that President Trump is alienating.
And if Trump is planning to blast most or all of China’s major cities killing hundreds of millions of innocent civilians with nuclear weapons to punish China for not doing what he wants, I wonder if he knows which way the wind blows since he doesn’t pay attention to the environment. Pollution from China blows across the Pacific and blankets the United States just like pollution from the U.S. blows across the Atlantic to fall in Europe. Even the president of the U.S. can’t avoid the poisoned radioactive air, water, and replace the contaminated soil that grows the food we all eat in America.
Divided we fall.
What do you think the odds are that Trump will get the U.S. into a conventional and/or nuclear war with China, and will Russia finish off the winner?
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of My Splendid Concubine, Crazy is Normal, Running with the Enemy, and The Redemption of Don Juan Casanova.
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Who knows WHAT that madman is likely to do?! Nuclear engagement is a fear, of course, now that he has his hands on a way to end life as we know it on this planet – at least the “we” that are still alive when the nuclear dust finally settles.
But then, he is more impulsive than most two-year olds, and seems to have surrounded himself with people either too short-sighted, naive, stupid or afraid to keep him reigned in. And it’s barely been a month since he took office.
God help us ALL in the coming 4 years. If we survive that long.
xx,
mgh
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He is mentally a child still living the terrible twos who is clearly insane and he is seventy, who is a malignant narcissist, and he doesn’t know it. He thinks he’s normal, superior, but normal.