[AnotherUnixGeek]

Pentagon's prediction of 'inevitable' conflict with China in 2025 shows war is America's primary 'export commodity'

I agree completely that our Democrat/Republican establishment is committed, financially and ethically, to perpetual war, but the predictions have been that China will have stage an 'inevitable' invasion of Taiwan by 2025, not that we would go to war with China.

I'd wager that war with China is the last thing that our establishment wants - China pays them far too much to upset that apple cart.

[MarMema]

“...not that we would go to war with China.”

But he is talking about troops. And direct combat.

[robowombat]

This something much more existential. It is not enough for China to be able to exert substantial control over and the ability to manipulate much of the current political class. For China’s true purpose, which is a form of global hegemony to truly function the American empire must be destroyed and the US toppled in an unambiguous manner by military means. China today is akin to Imperial Japan in the late 1930’s but with far greater ambitions. Key to the realization of China attaining its ‘historic destiny’ is the military defeat of the USA.