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Originally Posted by Skybird
Nuclear war only is an option if only one side has nukes. Global themorcnuclkear exchnage is no war option.
Check Africa, how France, America, China, Russia, and individual corporations from more countries, over the years and decades have fueled wars there to gain influence and access to rare resources, like ore, gems, gold, rare earths. Also check how the world bank and the ICF have been involved in and have fostered this. Their criminal reputation comes not from nothing.
Same could be said about South Africa, and in the not so distant past: FE Asia. But especially in Africa it is being done like this until today. Especially by the Chinese, who have systematically bought themselves influence there over the past one or two decades, and the use that to exploit regions and populations to the max.
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Then surely, since nuclear war is the only option in a clash of superpowers in the manner in which the US/USSR and US/PRC would clash (particularly in a land war, aka never fight a land war in Asia) then war between the US and PRC is not an option. The PRC cannot win a naval war, and the US cannot win a land war without resorting to use of nuclear weapons, therefore war is unlikely to occur. The preparation for war, and the weapons industry, sure, it's a lucrative market, and it's been going for centuries, as paranoia insures that each nation strives to have the best weapon, look at the naval arms race in Europe in the 1890s, but the industry works best in small bush wars, it struggles to keep up with demand in massive scale wars, and nations struggle to afford the weaponry to fight them.