Hypothetical: Mexico Threatens To Nuke China

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  1. mbk734

    mbk734 Well-Known Member

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    Let's say for taking all the slave labor.
    Do we sit back and enjoy the fireworks or step in?
    China has done very little to rein in their naughty little brother North Korea.
    What would the US do in a similar situation?
    Just tell China to relax?
     
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    I think this only works if it is the other way around - China threatening to nuke Mexico.
     
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    Is the threat realistic or just bullshit propaganda threats they've been making but never follow up on for decades?
     
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    We'll say Mexico is testing nukes and ballistic missiles and threatening China daily. Since our neighbor is being a prick, should we do something about it, just sit and watch, tell China not to be aggressive, or let China handle it?
     
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    But do those threats have any realistic possibility of happening. Mexico was threatening China with weapons besides nukes daily for decades and have never acted on it. When Beijing in under threat of annihilation by Mexican artillery and having hundreds of thousands of its people killed if we act on those threats, I think China is the country that needs to be calling the shots.
     
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    The U.S. as a matter of both unofficial and official policy going back more than a century forbids other nations from intervening or taking any kind of action against Canada or Mexico.
     
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    So they wouldn't let China stop Mexico from nuking them just like China doesn't want us to wipe out NK?
     
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    We should tell China to get rid of the NK regime or we're placing nukes in South Korea.
     
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    Mexico has about as much of a chance of nuking China as N Korea does of nuking the US

    That would be ZERO in both cases
     
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    Completely empty and useless threat. We can launch nukes from anywhere in the northern hemisphere and China knows this - so does NK. We don't need
    to put them on South Korean soil.
     
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    What was our reaction to the USSR placing nukes in Cuba?

    That's right...we almost went to war
     
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    Tell China to chill out because Mexico has not even mastered potable water, let alone splitting the atom.
     
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    We had nuclear weapons in South Korea up until the late 1970s IIRC.
     

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