Can someone explain to me what's the rational behind "if china invades Taiwan we nuke 3 gorges dam"? Most of these guys keep thinking that they can just launch missiles without any resistance. And they keep harping on 400 million casualties/dead?
Because they are literally too stupid and self-absorbed to understand the concept that their enemies are capable of retaliation.
I don't mean to sound overly schizo but a lot of these people really do have the mindset that they, as white Americans, have a supernaturally bestowed dominion over the earth. They think that other nations and ethnic groups exist solely to have brutality inflicted upon them by American whites whenever and for whatever reason they want. They think that in this sense, they are the only things that are fully real, insofar as everyone and everything else exists only as captive minds to be tormented at will for their entertainment.
Obviously most don't literally think this, but that is nevertheless their mindset.
So of course they can't understand the concept of proportional retaliation. In their minds, it's like if a person tried to warn you that a lab rat was going to launch dozens of MIRVs at you in retaliation for having its neck broken.
It's really not worth it to dwell on these people's claims too much. They don't reflect pentagon plans anyway, which are drawn up by smart and sober minded people. Just move on.