They wanted my opinion.

Because of my military background and being a disabled combat wounded veteran, plus having worked for the Army as a civilian in electronic warfare, I was asked by several people to state my opinion on what THEY referred to as a "limited nuclear event?" I bluntly stated that in any exchanges of Tactical Thermonuclear Weapons that those who managed to survive the initial aftermath will envy the dead. Period.

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plungesponge · 41-45, M

My take on what is happening is that the US has calculated that in the greater geopolitical environment, China stands to overtake the US on a number of fronts, and the balance of world power in general is shifting back to China and India the way it always has in history.

Couple that with hypersonic technology, AI, drone and cyber warfare, alternatives to the petrodollar and petrol itself, a US economy built on unsustainable debt and a botched pandemic response which leave the US far less able to deal with the next inevitable pandemic, and the US has everything to lose and nothing to gain from the status quo.

So we see the US picking a fight with Russia and destabilizing Europe overall, since a war fought in Europe benefits the US and potentially opens up an alliance against China. We see attacks on non-US energy infrastructure, so the US can sell liquified gas to Europe even if it means deindustrializing Germany. We see loose talk of nuclear exchange, since that's a military card the US still possesses above other nations, even if playing it risks global destruction. And it makes even more sense when the military edge of US conventional forces is weakening, with an inability to recruit troops, a public unwilling to see boots on the ground anywhere, and a bloated military hardware agenda that enriches arms manufacturers but churns out expensive drone targets just waiting to be blown up.