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ultimately the best of time want to do is buy time hoping that the united states will intervene james purnell talks about the assets that the americans could mobilize in the pacific or u.s. navy in the u.s. 7th fleet resources that could disrupt the invasion so. our submarine forces. they would be used to try to disrupt the attorneys in beijing the ships that would come across. the u.s. air forces that are operating from japanese bases and our aircraft carriers for decoy region. would be. destroyed beijing so the u.s. would have options but intervention would still be a mentis decision. american forces would immediately become chinese targets with its pacific bases like a canal in japan and the tiny island of guam open to attack and so even if the united states manage to defend taiwan its intervention could set off a terrifying chain of escalation between 2 superpowers that may just be the 1st battle in what becomes a series of battles that. go on over a number of years in a protracted great war. and of course all of that is nucular to turn the whole. government. washington or miscalculate an