If the U.S. managed to hack into a Russian missile silo and managed to launch a nuclear warhead at Beijing, would that secure a nuclear exchange between both countries and strengthen American hegemony in the world?
Depends on how strong the US would be after two years at -25 F in the dark. You need to think things through better than that. China would be a glass bowl and so would large segments of the Russian Federation. And if the rest of us survived the first two weeks of radioactive fallout, then we would have the fun of scrapping with our neighbors for the last bits of food and fuel in the midst of nuclear winter.
The US would not do that. We need someone to bully for the rest of their lives.
