Do We Really Want a New Cold War?

[Nighthawk117]

Ka-pi96 said:

Nighthawk117 said:

What? Your examples are purely examples of "Hot" Wars. Not Cold Wars.  Did the US military ever engage in combat with the Soviet military during the US-USSR Cold War? A Cold War is "war" without actual warfare.  Examples today are US relations with Iran, Venezuela, and North Korea.  

What is needed to punish China over their responsibility for the Covid-19 outbreak are sanctions, not overt warfare.  Besides, warfare between nuclear powers only ends in MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction).

All countries in the world affected by this virus should come together and enact economic sanctions against China that will last for years.

Why? A lot of countries should blame themselves/their own governments a LOT more than they blame China. Just for starters countries that had terribly orchestrated lockdowns that encouraged large swathes of people to move across the country spreading the virus are infinitely more to blame for how bad the situation got in those countries than China is.

The only thing you can evenly remotely blame on China is trying to cover up the severity of the situation. But you're an American. Your government is just as guilty of that as China's.

China is solely responsible for the outbreak in the first place.  It originated in Wuhan.  Tell me this, when China put Wuhan into lockdown, they shut off all travel from that city.  Roads were closed. Trains were shutdown.  They also shut down all domestic flights.  Right? The only thing they didn't shut down were international flights out of Wuhan, that was the only way out of the city, and 5 million people left that way.