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There's also just general balance of attrition to consider. PRC with 4x population has 3-4x more infra to hit, and homeland strikes will beget homeland strikes - PRC conventional icbms can take out US refineries and revert everyone to Yemen. Reality is US gained resource autarky but lost resource security since advanced rocketry now makes CONUS vunerable in peer war. PRC having more of everything, and hence more room to weather infra attrition, and ultimately still a massive/excessive construction industry to rebuild faster. PRC generally stuck with surplus of trained workers due to overcapacity. Meanwhile, US is much more vunerable to disruption of homeland serenity - hard to import talent, maintain global finance system, tech dominance if US has no power, fertilizer inputs, data centres. Ultimately, homeland strikes might be short term pyrrhic for everyone but medium/long term trajectory, it also matters who has capacity to recover, and who has more to lose by having homeland degraded in first place.