Originally Posted by
West Coast
Do you feel that you might not be informed enough to be commenting on the targeting priorities of the Chinese?
I would not presume to opine on Chinese targeting priorities.
I'm simply saying that if the US has maybe a dozen cities it cannot afford to lose, a 200 warhead strike force is probably a pretty adequate deterrent.from the Chinese perspective.
Nuclear warheads are qualitatively different, yet people seem to lose sight of that.They are the poor man's insurance policy.
The decision to overthrow Qaddafi even though he had abandoned his nuclear program, cemented the common wisdom that no state is safe from outside military intervention without nuclear weapons.
North Korea showed what that means in our world, they are dirt poor but free from the fear of foreign invasion. Logically, Taiwan should be next, but perhaps they still have confidence the US will save them from the 'motherland'.
Viet Nam, Indonesia and perhaps the Philippines should be next.