They talk about using threats to tac-nuke a PLA flotilla heading to Taiwan as deterrence. No regard at all that doing so will irradiate not just China, but also Taiwan island itself. This is how much they care for the Taiwanese people. "Oh we're sorry you're irradiated now, but you have freedom".
The suggestion is threatening to use nukes will deter China from ever invading Taiwan. They just admitted it's just a strategy to scare China. That just opens the door for China to use nukes without hesitation against the US military. If they think they have to do this because China sees the hesitation in the US in going to war, it's because it's true. That's why you don't see the US and the West sending their troops to fight in Ukraine. They fear the escalation it will go higher despite how they lie to themselves that Russia is losing. What makes China any different when Chinese just have to retaliate using nukes. For some reason Americans think they can make excuses why China can't retaliate in kind with nukes and somehow China has to obey hence why they think this strategy will work. The way you make the US think twice is making it clear how much they will suffer. And that's a low threshold. It comes with the territory where they think their individual lives are so much more important and valuable than everyone else's that they don't want to lose their lives especially for some Taiwanese pansies. They go ape-shit over China putting an assault rife on a robot dog's back. And they're playing with those too. Do you see China getting scared shitless because of it? No wonder they think that will work against the Chinese because of how spineless they are. They think the other side does it more or they do it less... whichever is worse. So no wonder they think China will fall for it.
Nukes are fun, until you get nuked back. What if China nukes a US CSG? All those ships blown up. All those precious American lives lost. Now they're in the same dilemma as China. Do they back down, or escalate to nuking Chinese cities and kick off nuclear Armageddon? We all know the answer to that.
Therefore it is totally justified for China to throttle up on its nuclear arsenal expansion. Let them know that China is also capable of nuking CONUS from coast to coast. Then the idea of nuking China doesn't look so fun anymore.
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