They will go with the variant story.
No, they will run with the "Biden's vaccines stopped the pandemic" story, and every single Democrat will believe and parrot it.
No, they will run with the "Biden's vaccines stopped the pandemic"
If you go with the theory that the u.s. government and CCP are deeply in bed together, and both face populist revolt from bad economics and uncontrollable public opinions, then it makes sense they might go to limited war in taiwan with the goal of pacifying/distracting each-others citizens.
How they unwind the jab/covid narrative is secondary. But yes, I could see them doing it your way
A war would be unlimited because the CCP cannot afford to lose face. And the US cannot stop after the first carrier group was taken down by a swarm of hypersonic missiles. A war by proxy would be more likely, but China has no proxies except NK, and NK is not suicidal.
Most likely they really work together: The Pentagon is part of the NATO, and NATO and China are part of the UN. The wars of the future are not country against country, but UN/NATO/CCP against citizens that don't accept the global government. When Chinese troops enter the US, then with blue helmets and invited by a blue state.
A war would be unlimited because the CCP cannot afford to lose face.
This I wholeheartedly believe. Once the chinese are in, they would be in it to win. Stepping down would lead to the PLA overthrowing the regime.
On the other hand
And the US cannot stop after the first carrier group was taken down by a swarm of hypersonic missiles.
Not if the US doesnt want to.
Why couldn't the u.s. stop though?
And "not stopping" is not equivalent to (nor does it imply) escalating to ever more dangerous weapons.
Why do you think the u.s. is talking about going to "no first strike policy."
The u.s. occupation government wants a war not a nuclear apocalypse.
The u.s. government could care less if the chinese did engage in first-strike with weapons of mass destruction.
In fact, all the more reason for the government to "take the high ground", seize even more power, and radically transition the u.s. into permanent lockdown sovietization "because things are different now unlike the before-before time!"
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