The PRC's the only Nuclear-armed country with an unconditional 'No First Use' policy, meaning they alone pledge to never launch a first strike (even in the event of an invasion) and to never use their nukes to threaten other countries into submission. They are, quite clearly, the single country whose Nukes should worry you the least.
The reason why no other country has committed themselves to a NFU policy is because of how meaningful words are in international relations. Russia and the U.S.have been no stranger to the use of the implied threat of nuclear war in the pursuit of their own interests. The Cuban missile crisis, for instance, had America very openly stating their willingness to bring about Armageddon if the Soviets didn't listed to their demands, and they were never even threatened with invasion.
By contrast, even the most bellicose of Chinese politicians have refused to bring up their country's arsenal of ICBM's when threatened, and that is a very deliberate choice because they could very easily do so on many occasions, particularly with regards to Taiwan. Moreover, NFU commitments have had a very material effect upon Chinese Nuclear policy. Because of it them the PRC never joined the Cold War Nuclear Arms race and even today China lacks anything like the first-strike capabilities of the U.S. and Russia.
True but history has shown they’ve only invaded another country once and pulled covert shit against communists in others. It’s unlikely they’re going to be the one starting any war these days
they are worth a little America has on multiple occasions almost launched nulear weapons by accident once when US soldiers mistook the moon for a soviet missile
Isn't a conditional 'No first use' policy just a 'first use' policy? Lol
The U.S. is like a guy who's openly shot someone twice, and has stockpiled a mountain of guns ever since, whining about other people who have never shot anyone doing the same to not end up like the shot guy.
That's a big part of US culture so you're very much right
Hey look it's the news outlet started by the founder of the Proud Boys.
At this point I feel like it's suicidal. Like they're bringing everyone down with them.
capitalism is a death cult. fascism is literally a suicide cult, so of course they are.
This isn't even good cold war propaganda. The empire can't even do that right anymore!
When your audience are imbeciles, why bother putting in the effort.
China is the last country with nukes that I would worry about
Everybody's nukes are worrisome. When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. Having said that, China is a smaller nuclear power than Russia and the USA
TBH, nukes is literally the only thing that stops the world from immediately devolving into WWIII.
Didn’t they make like 5 of these videos? I’m more worried about the US pulling some shit and china rightfully responding with a nuke.
It's possible China will massively expand their nuclear arsenal.
Most of China's weapons are only capable of hitting US regional thralls like south korea, japan, australia. As the US increasingly ramps up tensions and increasingly seems to care less and less about their "allies", China may need to make sure it has sufficient numbers of silo-based ICBM's that can hit the US mainland. Problem is, silos are vulnerable to first strikes, so they'd need enough to destroy the world "several times over" in order to ensure they can at least destroy the USA once over with what they have left in a second strike.
If China was closer to the US, it might get away with maintaining a small second-strike MRBM capable force.
Ditch silos and use submarines. No first strike capability against them and range is a non-issue.
