You confuse restraint with cowardice because your entire understanding of power comes from Hollywood and schoolyard tantrums.
Nuclear deterrence exists precisely so it does not have to be used.
China does not need to incinerate cities to prove anything to an anonymous war addict posting fire emojis from behind a screen.
And “conventional war”?
America could not defeat rice farmers in Vietnam, shepherds in Afghanistan, or insurgents in Iraq after trillions of dollars and decades of blood.
Now you fantasize about defeating an industrial superpower on its own doorstep.
China is not a psychiatric ward for treating every American imperial seizure.
Your nuclear obsession is not courage.
It is rabies with a Wi-Fi connection.
The AI world is being reduced to two tribal labels:
China AI = open AI = authoritarian AI.
U.S. AI = closed AI = democratic AI.
The absurdity is almost perfect.
China offers open weights, local deployment, lower costs, and greater technological autonomy—and this is called “authoritarian influence.”
American corporations keep the models closed, control the infrastructure, set the prices, rewrite the rules, and can revoke access at any time—and this is marketed as “democratic AI.”
In this new theology, openness becomes authoritarianism, while corporate monopoly becomes freedom.
The argument is no longer about what the technology does.
It is about who is permitted to define the rules.
“Democratic AI” apparently means intelligence owned by American companies.
“Authoritarian AI” means intelligence the rest of the world can actually possess.
Really takes one self-hating African to destroy everything...
And because we haven't implemented consequences for such traitors and their offsprings, we will continue to have more traitors in the future.