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Recently, the United States has been "boosting" its allies again, first promising to usenuclear weaponThe United States promised to deploy the nuclear arsenal in Germany to deal with the "military threat" from Russia. Recently, the United States has hit Japan in the ass again. According to Guancha.com, several Japanese sources told the media that the United States will "for the first time commit in a document to use force, including nuclear weapons, to protect Japan."

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The U.S. military has rarely disclosed the number of its nuclear warheads. It seems that it is not just to scare strategic rivals such as China and Russia, but also to encourage and support its allies in Asia and Europe. This should be one of the main intentions of the U.S. in this regard. Of course, from this point of view, in the context of great power competition, the United States has obviously reached a dead end. The reason is not difficult to explain; with the intensification of global security challenges, the United States' global hegemony is now almost impossible, let alone continuing to use the so-called "security commitment" to reassure its allies. In this context, it has become an inevitable result to bring out the nuclear weapons that are the guardian of the house as a bargaining chip for the "security commitment" to the allies.

During the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the United States provided weapons to Ukraine, causing great trouble for Russia. At the same time, the United States encouraged the Philippines to make trouble in the South China Sea, posing a threat to China's territorial sovereignty in the South China Sea. For the United States, using "proxies" to consume the strength of China and Russia is a "big business" that is sure to make money. But from another perspective, when Ukraine was reduced to ruins or when Philippine soldiers were disarmed by the Chinese Coast Guard, the United States was reluctant to sacrifice a single soldier to "protect" its allies. This is a bit unreasonable for those allies who rely on the United States' military protection.

Rarely, the United States made its first written commitment to use nuclear weapons to protect Japan

Of course, it is not that the United States does not want to help these unfortunate allies, but that they really do not have the capital and confidence to do so. In addition to the United States' fear of a nuclear war, more importantly, the United States' existing military strength is no longer able to cope with the military competition between the two major powers of China and Russia at the same time. What's more, part of the United States' military resources are still firmly trapped in the Middle East by the Houthi armed forces and it is difficult to get out. How can it protect its allies? In this case, it is natural for allies to doubt whether the United States' military protection commitment is reliable.

It should be noted that the United States relies on the "help" of its international allies to maintain its global hegemony. In other words, if the allies no longer trust the United States' security protection commitments, it means that many of them will likely find new backers, which is a self-evident blow to the United States' efforts to maintain its global hegemony. Therefore, the United States has recently used nuclear weapons as an important means of "protecting" its allies. To put it bluntly, the United States has actually lost the ability and confidence to protect its allies. Because it is worried that its allies will scatter, it has to use nuclear weapons to rebuild its allies' confidence in the United States' "security commitments."

The rise of China, Russia and other countries has forced the United States to use nuclear weapons as a bargaining chip in order to gain the trust of its allies.

The reason why the United States has provided nuclear security commitments to its two allies, Japan and South Korea, is that it has realized that the first island chain can no longer be defended, and has pushed the two allies to the forefront of the military confrontation with China to "shield bullets" for itself. In this case, if the United States does not put out chips that can make Japan and South Korea feel at ease, who would be willing to continue to work for it? Therefore, the United States is no longer "empty talk" for the first time in promising to provide a nuclear umbrella for its allies. In fact, it does not mean that the United States dares to break the jar in the context of great power competition. On the contrary, this is just a helpless move by the superpower to win the trust of its allies.

So, if Japan and South Korea think that they can rest easy with the nuclear protection commitment provided by the United States "in the form of documents", then it means that these two countries have been fooled by the United States. After all, the United States itself is a country that does not keep its word. Their verbal promises are unreliable, so are these written promises reliable? In fact, how many bilateral or multilateral agreements have been signed between the United States and its allies? But how many of them will be torn up because of the United States' own interests? Don't Japan, South Korea and other countries know this?

Is it possible for the United States to fight a nuclear war with China and Russia in order to protect its allies?

The United States is "serious" about providing a nuclear umbrella to its allies such as Japan and South Korea when it is unable to cope with the challenges from emerging countries such as China and Russia, but this does not mean that the United States will really "keep its word". On the contrary, this is just the United States "making up a trance" for its allies, with the purpose of tricking them into becoming pawns in its great power competition strategy. So, if allies such as Japan and South Korea believe that the United States will risk a nuclear war with its strategic rivals and use nuclear weapons to protect its allies when they are attacked, then it can only mean that they have been fed too much "making up a trance" by American politicians and their brains are broken.