Nixon's visit to China that eventually led to Most Favored Nation status/world trade org., Clinton receiving Chi-com cash for his campaign then transferring sensitive satellite tech over to the commerce dept, allowing the Chi-coms to get their hands on it (payback). Then Obozo’s appeasement policies that led to all the nonsense in the east/south China sea. Heck for that matter, George Bush sr. and baby bush's whole globalism/free trade poppycock.
Now, after decades of double digit growth in their military expenditures, the Chi-coms are a formidable force. Our military still is the greatest on the planet, but we would take serious casualties if war ever broke out.
Not to mention, the Chinese have made it plain that their intention to hit American mainland would be a strategy if ever in conflict with the U.S..
Can you imagine the chaos if war were to come to our Western shores.
Certainly. As a Westerner who has followed the rise of Red China for 45 years (since Nixon and Kissinger changed the course of history), I've been imagining the missiles hitting our western shores which had previously been safe. Russia's military was becoming less a threat. Then over 45 years, Red China built a military industrial complex one step at a time.
Incidentally, Nixon's biggest mistake was taking America off of the gold standard. Back in 1970’s, a $20 gold piece traded close to $20. Now it trades at over $1200. Double digit inflation upon an overly taxed and regulated economy. Then look back at Red China where a few bribes got American businesses the slave labor, no regulation that is required to keep prices affordable to the poorer and poorer middle class Americans who are the backbone of our country!
And so, we have met the enemy and the enemy is us/U.S.A.! Neither Nixon nor LBJ arose out of nowhere to destroy the beating heart and soul of individualistic Americans. Read “The Ominous Parallels: the End of Freedom in America” if interested in where bad ideas come from.