If we do it right, we publicly announce that we have been cornered, bc of Ukraine and how nice we are, and then we get a bunch of global investment into our military armamemts/munitions (none soon enough to shoot back tho) so we make a huge threat that looks like we are totally bluffing an All In, which of course gets called -> but we are not bluffing tho, hence the little nuke(s).

Russia wont do MAD for the whole world, just bc we took out a third of Shanghai, as a dangerous example, very likely its like a Tehran as our example. Putin might even follow suit with Kiev. Nobody is going to shoot at us with one.

China only has enough nukes to assure their own complete and total destruction. (We would lose cities and enormous population but we would still exist) We have enough nukes to hit every city above a certain size.

We will mention that the "little tactical nuke" we were just "forced to use" (ideally we do this to "save another country", like Taiwan for example) are 1000 times less powerful than a "real nuke" - of which we have thousands and thousands.

Then we do pirate America to shut down international trade for any countries who sanction us - and that should do it.

Obviously we would be doing a lot of very heavy handed propagandizing across the west and demanding our allies do too, - we would also go full 1984 for awhile (with AI tho, not people) bc of stuff like suit case nukes (that will conveniently get used outside of America somewhere 1st)...

I'm actually not kidding all that much at all tbh.

If we were truly out of bullets and it looked like China was about to corner the global economy and take away all our power-> we just won't allow that while we have the ability to prevent it.

The truth is there are many more scenarios where we would use those weapons than we want to admit. I hope we never have to demonstrate.

The United States military budget is now 1.5 trillion dollars per year.

See also: not having daily mass shootings.