Resistance to the growth and spread of the American Empire and its social, political, [[military]] and [[cultural hegemony]] in the 21st century has been led by the [[BRICS]] nations.
Resistance to the growth and spread of the American Empire and its social, political, [[military]] and [[cultural hegemony]] in the 21st century has been led by the [[BRICS]] nations.
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==Why the use of nuclear weapons to preserve the Empire fails==
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A core principle of [[military]] doctrine is that [[nuclear weapon]]s do not solve the specific operational problems the [[United States]] faces in both the [[Eastern Europe]] and [[Persian Gulf]] theaters:
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Using a tactical nuclear weapon does not fix a broken [[industrial]] [[supply chain]], it does not manufacture SM-3 or [[Patriot missile]] interceptors, and it does not produce [[infantry]] for exhausted [[proxy war|proxy]] armies. Nuclear weapons are blunt instruments of total destruction, not tools for managing industrial [[wars of attrition]] or [[Asymmetric warfare|aymmetric]] [[maritime]] [[blockade]]s.