China doesn’t have allies, only business partners.
A better way to go through life, that also makes the business partners friendlier to your continued business.
Nuking a carrier group would probably doom humanity.
Sinking ships is permitted response to war declared upon you. MAD is only about ICBMs headed towards homeland to fire back before they land.
Russia’s patience is only about enduring a proxy war that makes it stronger, with better political capital unity for rulership. Direct war fails containment restraints.
A better way to go through life, that also makes the business partners friendlier to your continued business.
Sinking ships is permitted response to war declared upon you. MAD is only about ICBMs headed towards homeland to fire back before they land.
Russia’s patience is only about enduring a proxy war that makes it stronger, with better political capital unity for rulership. Direct war fails containment restraints.
The US would absolutely respond with a nuclear strike of our own, and with current leadership, way out of proportion.
Cooler heads could prevail, but I’m not hopeful in that scenario.
Of course, we should not be blockading them in the first place unless they try to take Taiwan.