How Russia and China Could Strike the U.S. Air Force’s ‘Achilles Heel’
There will be no strike at anyones achilles heel, at least not if we are talking about mayor world powers like the US, Russia and China.<p>The most any one of these powers will do (and all of them do it) is trying to subvert and destroy weak governments that are friendly to the adversary.<p>There&#x27;s not even a chance that one power might try to pit the two others against each other (I&#x27;m talking about a real war) because all of them are guaranteed to wipe out all of the others if the survival of their own state is sufficiently threatened.<p>The reasoning for this goes something like this: If we are destroyed and only one superpower survives this (because they didn&#x27;t take part in it) they&#x27;d be in a position to dominate all of what remains. Very cynical but that&#x27;s how MAD works.<p>Even Israel which is much weaker than any of those three has a similar deterrence strategy. It entails striking the West, even if they were overrun by Arabs, not Western powers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Samson_Option" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Samson_Option</a><p>I don&#x27;t like how this all works (I&#x27;m not a Sociopath) but it seems to have been very effective over the last decades because the actors were all rational.<p>The reason why Muslim countries acquiring WMD&#x27;s is so much more heavily opposed is that many strategists do believe that their ideology could threaten MAD. It is not inconceivable that some of these governments could launch an all out attack if they had the capability believing that they will all go to heaven for taking out what they perceive to be &quot;the great Satan&quot;.