Originally Posted by dyna mo

u.s. could stop china dead by simply stopping buying their shit. wars are won on supplies, war supplies are expensive, china would run out of steam in an engaged, prolonged war fought here, we would stop buying chinese goods, their cash flow would dry up in months, china loses.

so then it boils down to u.s. v russia, and as an american, i would not want to wage that war, there's a shit load of russians and they can fight but so can we, it would be very ugly.