The Kremlin and the DPRK join forces… thoughts?
This is deterrence, it just so happens that the United States of Amerikkka doesn’t like it when you limit their options from mass genocide, to “infantry invasion”.
Does deterrence work? It does until it doesn’t. The only country that has ever used nuclear weapons against another country is America, so we’ll never know until it happens again. And when it happens again, there won’t be a society to sort through the evidence and ascertain blame.
This is a good time to remember that Americas nuclear war strategy is to be the largest standing civilization after the ~2 hours of nuclear holocaust. Unironically.
It’s not that it’s a lie, it’s just that that’s basically the only plan you can really come up with other than nuclear disarmament. We have to remember that this is a military plan and militaries all over the globe do not function like computers, they function like Rube Goldberg machines.