Your premise is comical. Any war that involves destroying a US carrier and killing thousands of soldiers in doing so, will move to a nuclear stand-off almost immediately thereafter. China and Russia have always understood that. For China, the ability to sink a US carrier only matters in instances of absolute war, where hundreds of millions of people will die. Being able to sink a carrier if you're a major military competitor to the US, is low on your list of actual concerns in the end (the threat is worth drastically more than the actual ability; if you use the ability and succeed, it's WW3). Carriers are for force projection, some intimidation, and fighting nations not named China or Russia.
Since we happen to be talking about sinking carriers and the possibility of nuclear war, I thought I'd mention a video that brings this scenario to life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VZ3LGfSMhA
It's a fictional BBC news segment covering a "serious incident" between NATO and Russian forces.
"Tensions between NATO and Russia have been growing over the past few years, and the continuing military build-up in the Baltic region is increasing concerns that a serious conflict might be a real possibility. This dramatization depicts one possible scenario. We hope that it shows how fragile our world is, and how quickly it can be changed by military and political decision-makers who do not speak for the tens of millions of people whose lives they may well destroy."
It's only tangentially related to the conversation, but it's such an excellent work of art that I can't help plugging it. The authors appear to be anonymous, which is interesting. If you were affected by the movie Threads or any other nuclear fiction, you might find this video similarly powerful.
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Your premise is comical. Any war that involves destroying a US carrier and killing thousands of soldiers in doing so, will move to a nuclear stand-off almost immediately thereafter. China and Russia have always understood that. For China, the ability to sink a US carrier only matters in instances of absolute war, where hundreds of millions of people will die. Being able to sink a carrier if you're a major military competitor to the US, is low on your list of actual concerns in the end (the threat is worth drastically more than the actual ability; if you use the ability and succeed, it's WW3). Carriers are for force projection, some intimidation, and fighting nations not named China or Russia.
Since we happen to be talking about sinking carriers and the possibility of nuclear war, I thought I'd mention a video that brings this scenario to life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VZ3LGfSMhA
It's a fictional BBC news segment covering a "serious incident" between NATO and Russian forces.
"Tensions between NATO and Russia have been growing over the past few years, and the continuing military build-up in the Baltic region is increasing concerns that a serious conflict might be a real possibility. This dramatization depicts one possible scenario. We hope that it shows how fragile our world is, and how quickly it can be changed by military and political decision-makers who do not speak for the tens of millions of people whose lives they may well destroy."
It's only tangentially related to the conversation, but it's such an excellent work of art that I can't help plugging it. The authors appear to be anonymous, which is interesting. If you were affected by the movie Threads or any other nuclear fiction, you might find this video similarly powerful.