“” “” W Bush had many failures as a president, but in 2007, most analyses claimed the US had the capability to destroy Russia and China, with limited damage to us, if one of them struck first.”” “”
Well, if ‘limited damage’ is the destruction of every major population center and every significant military installation combined with inceneration of 160 000 000 million Americans.... Yes.
Yep - in the 2000s the “limited damage” part was still bad - but our deterrent was full and total. Not so much anymore, apparently.