> Honest question: Why not just give Taiwan nukes?
Fair question, here's at least one answer:
1. that's a violation of the non-profileration treaty and the USA and the West basing its entire legitimacy on the rule of law. Values and all that.
See how far student-union whataboutism gets you once you do that.
2. because nukes are counter-productive: you cannot fire one nuke - you have to fire them all. The second Russia sees the nuclear flashes from US assets, ALL of their nukes start flying.
Unless you think Putin is going to wait to see exactly where in Asia hundred of thermonuclear ICBMs are aimed at.
And the first to land will be in Berlin, Tokyo, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Rome, Jerusalem, Sydney, Toronto [1]. (Before you press the down-vote, take the time to investigate the Sampson Option in orthodox MAD nuclear deterrence).
And that is not counting the Chinese nuclear response.
Fair question, here's at least one answer:
1. that's a violation of the non-profileration treaty and the USA and the West basing its entire legitimacy on the rule of law. Values and all that.
See how far student-union whataboutism gets you once you do that.
2. because nukes are counter-productive: you cannot fire one nuke - you have to fire them all. The second Russia sees the nuclear flashes from US assets, ALL of their nukes start flying.
Unless you think Putin is going to wait to see exactly where in Asia hundred of thermonuclear ICBMs are aimed at.
And the first to land will be in Berlin, Tokyo, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Rome, Jerusalem, Sydney, Toronto [1]. (Before you press the down-vote, take the time to investigate the Sampson Option in orthodox MAD nuclear deterrence).
And that is not counting the Chinese nuclear response.
Childhood fanstasies.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option