The US would never go to war against China. It is simply unrealistic.
It'd be calibrated support like we're seeing in Ukraine but no direct engagement.
It'd be calibrated support like we're seeing in Ukraine but no direct engagement.
This isn't the 1950's, and a proxy war with China now would be nothing like the Korean war.
It would be nothing like a proxy war with Russia either. China has an order of magnitude more people, and the amount of trade between the U.S. and China is stupendous. If that trade were to abruptly stop, the whole world would be plunged into a depression deeper and longer than anything the world has ever seen. Tens of millions would die, just from the economic dislocations alone.
Calibrated. Please don't try to minimize, contextualize, or legitimize any kind of war with China. We'd have to invent a new word, because "disastrous" or "cataclysmic" would even begin to describe it.
God forbid anything like what is happening in Ukraine ever happens anywhere in the world again. We are 1/4 through the 21st Century for chrissakes there's no reason we can't resolve these things by negotiation. Its time for the human race to grow up.
I mean, look, I'm not in favor of a shooting war between the US and China. But I'm not as sanguine as you are that it can't happen.
We're not talking about the first world war, we're talking about what would be the final world war. We can't be sanguine about it not happening, sure--we need to ensure it doesn't happen.