We're just getting started though. China will likely make a move on Taiwan soon, while Biden's pants are down with Ukraine. Actually, does Biden even wear pants? Isn't it just a diaper these days?
And I don't see any kind of Russian coalition attacking the US without serious provocation. I strongly suspect we are going to see some escalation between both the US and Russia AND the US and China prior to civil war here. Maybe even hot war with both.
I was just looking at nuke maps of the US. East Tennessee is at least decent in terms of low target priority and so-so fallout spread. So yay for that.
If China makes a move on Taiwan they lose. Given the right equipment troop ships are an extremely vulnerable target. Taiwan has the right equipment.
Taiwan is a tropical mountainous island, the hardest target to invade, and paratroopers would be suicide without a land based invasion at the same time.
China cannot take out Taiwans airbase because it is dug in underneath a mountain and faces east to the Pacific. As long as the US, Japan and Australia protect the Eastern coastline China cannot get to it.
Taiwan has satellites, AWACs, Drones, Cruise missiles they are well equipped to sink Chinese ships. Not only so but every single person in Taiwan has gone through several years of military training so it is very easy for them to mobilize trained personel.
Then you haven't even considered a counterattack. China attacks Taiwan you can say good bye to the Yangtze river basin, 500 million people and their entire industrial base. The 3 gorges dam will be blown up immediately. Take out a few of china's biggest dams and 10% of their power grid goes down in a country that already has rolling blackouts.