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So in other words, the best case scenario for the conflict not going nuclear is massive numbers of American plebeian soldiers, quite plausibly relying upon a draft simply to get said numbers, dying for a continuation of the status quo and inevitably a lot of 'wartime emergency' measures rammed...

Missing my point, that as soon as one side starts losing the conventional war, they'll either create a stalemate by threatening to go nuclear in which case every life and dollar lost in the conventional war was pointless or actually go nuclear in which case we get a firsthand demonstration of...

I'm not saying China could win, but that thanks to nuclear MAD, neither could we.

Yes, we've already heard about the crippling vulnerability of the Three Gorges Dam. None of that changes the fact, that in an actual fight, we're equally vulnerable on account of nuclear weapons and having all our Made In China™ infrastructure almost certainly riddled with backdoor killswitches...