But lets ignore nukes for a moment and pretend they don’t exist. In that case, this would be the right time to do it. US has expended everything good that it has, lost their middle east foothold, is stretched beyond capacity, will take literally years to replenish stocks.
They don’t even have to actually do it, they can just move some stuff around in a way that threatens to do it and their response would expose just how stretched the US is.
I don’t think this would happen because nukes.
But lets ignore nukes for a moment and pretend they don’t exist. In that case, this would be the right time to do it. US has expended everything good that it has, lost their middle east foothold, is stretched beyond capacity, will take literally years to replenish stocks.
They don’t even have to actually do it, they can just move some stuff around in a way that threatens to do it and their response would expose just how stretched the US is.