You guys remember when we fought World War 2 the Germans started and ended the war with may more advanced tech and fancy military toys but at kinda low volume and America beat them by just Mcdonaldsing their ass and bringing 11 Shermans to fight every 1 tiger, basically we destroyed them with production and logistics
some know me one here, im a retard but I know a little history, I ask all willing to engage with this point seriously, if china started, tommorow making these with bombs on them and tells us
"we are going to start sinking ever single navy vessel under a US flag we find within our territorial waters, This includes the Island of Taiwan, any use of nuclear weapons from any nation will result in a total use of all Chinese Nuclear weapons onto American citys, however we will not use a 1st strike nuclear policy"
Short of us using nuclear weapons how do we credibly go up against a never ending supply of cheap drones? Only strategic bombers could reach as far as China from US soil and we have less than 200 of those, they would be gone in a month of continuous strikes. Hell we allow the use of modern strike aircraft and it only buys us another 1,500 or so.
I think we might have been outmaneuvered on this one and its kinda just a matter of time but Im open to be shown another perspective, if you wanna ad hominem me thats fine just please have a concrete reason why my logic is wrong aswell please