There is ZERO chance of China confronting us directly over any perceived East Asian hegemony. The Chinese oligarchs don’t need to.
They own us, and are using the power of the money we give them with every “made in China” purchase to buy political influence in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan...and here.
Keep in mind: we’re a nation in decay, just a source of raw materials for them. Did you know that our top two exports to China are raw corn and scrap paper?
Scrap paper. Crushed cardboard boxes. That’s it.
And what are we dependent on them for? Almost everything but oil. And that includes most of the microelectronics used in our military hardware.
My wife recently took a series of business trips to the East, which included a week spent each in Singapore, Osaka, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. She returned home embarrassed for us. The cities she visited were bustling and blindingly modern—polluted, yes, but she said one could feel the general attitude of people on their way up.
One can smell the rot in the air here.
Asia is on the move. Meanwhile, most Americans leech off their countrymen and live for the next sporting event on television.
It’s a complex world, ruled by money, not tanks. Not any more. Ten thousand M1’s are worth nothing to a stagnant, ignorant bankrupt nation.
Zero chance of war with China, or a need to stand up to China militarism anywhere, and major warfare is ended for humanity, sounds great.
I don’t want any of what you smoke though.
Think about that. The majority of people have never lived in US that was on the way up.
The choice we have now is to either retrench, or over extend. That means we have to let Europe, Israel, et all go their own way.
And we had better start looking to the south. South America will start moving against us soon.
