Depending on the target your cruise missiles are out of range and your fancy aircraft will have to face air defense systems. (Especially, since you moved your fat ass carrier close-by...)

So, does your magical aircraft carry those dozens of cruise missiles, immune to every modern anti-air missile it will encounter? You know, instead of spending all that money on aircraft carriers, some countries have spent their money on air defense instead. Try to fly an F35 to Moscow.

Sorry, but this is laughable. If what you said was true, geopolitics would look very different. The US would break the whole nuclear deterrence game, since you could eliminate all nuclear launch sites, conventionally, before a strike. Why even have nukes then?!

> Depending on the target your cruise missiles are out of range and your fancy aircraft will have to face air defense systems. (Especially, since you moved your fat ass carrier close-by...)

Right, but the scenario was unspecified enough that I assumes peace time and the planes can retreat before the enemy notices the attack and shoots them down.

> Try to fly an F35 to Moscow.

I won't fly my F-35 to Moscow, I will drop some AGM-158 JASSM-ER over eastern poland and the pilots will probably be back on the ground before the russian air defense has even tracked the missiles.

> Sorry, but this is laughable. If what you said was true, geopolitics would look very different. The US would break the whole nuclear deterrence game, since you could eliminate all nuclear launch sites, conventionally, before a strike. Why even have nukes then?!

No, I don't get why people think that. That's the exact reason why countries have Nuclear missile subs. So they can retaliate, even after a first strike.

But even if they hadn't, what you said wouldn't follow. Because having the ability to strike whatever you want doesn't mean you can prevent a second strike. If you launch cruise missiles, the target can detect them and send a retaliatory nuclear strike before the cruise missiles arrive and destroy the silos.

> The US would break the whole nuclear deterrence game, since you could eliminate all nuclear launch sites, conventionally, before a strike.

I didn't say the US could hit all points on Earth simultaneously. Russia has a bunch of nuclear silos and submarines. Brighter Russians than you have designed their nuclear arsenal to survive this US capability.