• @peeonyou
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    21 year ago

    but Russia has thousands more nukes than China

    • @PolandIsAStateOfMind
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      1 year ago

      Seriously, China now have maybe around 400 warheads, but 4 years ago it was estimated on 200, and they are building up and Pentagon suspect they will have 1500 by 2035.

      Nuclear option is of course discussed in Pentagon, and i bet their usual idea of “short victorious war” but with nukes is on the table since some people there probably think along the lines of “Lets strike now, we can shoot down most of their 400 warheads and can survive the rest relatively intact, it’s better than losing hegemony”. This is think is the gist of issue, they are losing it and might decide that nuked world under their heel is better than the multiploar one.