Exactly. It take a steady cash flow to pay for infrastructure.
With the major economies destroyed, where does a steady cash flow come from? Where do materials come from? More pointedly, where do materials that are not glowing come from?
I certainly don’t wish a nuclear strike on Russians. I don’t wish one on China or Europe.
Two or three nuclear bombs going off at altitude, would take down Russia’s electronic infrastructure.
I think we’ve survived this long to know these things.
There’s no way I would see Trump wanting nuclear war. I’m very doubtful the Russians or China really want one.
China is just now emerging, and I can’t see them wanting to go back 50 years in 90 minutes.
Trump doesn’t want a nuclear war, he wants nuclear superiority so that other countries won’t attack us. IIRC, that used to be a policy of ours many years ago.
But Obama, with his “more flexibility” promise to Medvdev, reduced our capabilities.
Now it’s a race against time. Will America under Trump be able to arm up again before the Russians can?
I think so...