FUTURE PIVOT
Stop ignoring Starship. The public has to get aggressive if it truly wants to stay top dog. MAGA isn't real if it isn't thinking like this.
Countermeasures like submarines have in space. Anti-sat missiles have to fly by them without being intercepted. Countermeasures can be small as their in orbit. Starship can carry many. Anti-sat is big and expensive. Orbits can be past geosynchronous or the moon. Weapons can take days to reach earth. Stealth weapons. AI that acts like mines. Aircraft, ships anything. How fast and stealthy can you make a spacecraft. Refueling pods. King of the hill moon bases.
In war you already possess the capability. If it's nuclear you know those treaty's won't last long. Why build aircraft carriers? Sitting ducks. Likely $20 billion plus with everything in it not to mention 5000 crew. Those skidoos surprised the Russians. Stealth torpedos/ super cavitating/ whales with nukes implanted trained like dolphins... Special MIRV non nuclear, to many warheads to fast. Countermeasure chaffe warheads obscuring the barrage. ECM like a E-3 growler jamming hard in front of the group of warheads. How big is the magazine for directly over head. No 30mm to cheaply destroy like a cruise or harpoon. Sensors in the nose can target the catapult. How many spares do you have? I thought this up as fast as my fingers type. They have years with genius people. Aircraft carriers are sitting ducks. Great for invading the middle east. Bad for confrontation with China. All China does is design ordinance for US weapons. Their entire strategy is to kill the carriers like the DF-21D. Stand off distance. Beyond the strikeing range they need refueling. Missiles like the Chinese PL-15 have the range to hit the refueling aircraft over the horizon.
The Chinese copy everything, many times from stolen blueprints. The Starship will be no different. Nothing in China is civilian. They can put their NASA logo on it but it's military. That bay works the same way.
Treaty's are abandoned overnight. Don't wait and trust them. Have the advantage and keep it. China will be on par with deployed nuclear warheads within 10 years. They like Megaton power like I do. Go big or go home. If you have to use it terraform. DF-5 is just that. Their first big ICBM is also still their best. They aren't bitch. They use reeducation camps they rape the Uhigers wives in front of them in auditoriums. They'll pull your fingernails out while forcing you to sing their national anthem. Not to mention the organ harvesting of peaceful Falun Gong practitioners. Meditation like Buddhism and it's the death penalty. They disappear anyone in conflict with the party. Billionaires included. They don't pussy sleep deprive with inmates they use the guards and firehoses. Month duration, US is 72 hours before they pussy out. I'll bet they'll actually have to revive you if they water board.
Keep the advantage. Don't trust that we have some secret UFO fleet. You've rigged our military for fights in the middle east not peer adversarys. All China does is worry about the one main big bad cop on their beat the USA.
Space is the high ground. Air superiority is everything. Space superiority is even more still. Every enemy satellite can be killed with one bay load launched from geosynchronous orbit. Small and slow. A few pounds of HE with a copper penetrator. Just ship gets by you full of these is like trying to shoot down a cluster munitions payload after it opens up. Good luck. Nukes from Vladimir in space is crude and hoping the EM shielding you built in wasn't up to snuff. Make it a guarantee with Starship. It's the future. It's a matter of time. Will you really enforce the treaty to defend Taiwan when China is a 100% peer adversary? I don't think you will. The American people aren't what they use to be. They want peace and quiet while they watch the laundry fly in football games. You can get past that by embracing Starship and that form of defense. Already you can see in Israel how well Iron Dome works against ballistic missiles even the ones they call hypersonic. Starship can intercept the mid course phase in orbit. Carry hundreds or thousands of kill vehicles. You can truly take the ability to strike from their territory away from them. You have everything you need. Even the money. Like what you've spent so far in Ukraine. Direct it into a fleet of Starship like spacecraft and dominate the planet. You're so cop like you should never worry that we're to strong.
If you don't take this action you can't confront China. The American people will pussy out unless you can assure them that zero nukes will strike our country.
P.S. It's also a matter of time before they match the Starship. Advantage will be lost quickly. Fear of AI might be it knows the only solution.