The growing threat is from our side provoking war. Here comes the prewar marketing sales pitch.
“The growing threat is from our side provoking war. Here comes the prewar marketing sales pitch.”
We aren’t provoking @#$%. If anything, China has been the source of any provocation; it’s been openly threatening its neighbors for years.
In any event, it is pretty much inevitable that the two biggest kids on the block — especially if they have little in common — are eventually going to fight. It has been that way for many thousands of years.
It is wise to prepare for it. If it does not come to pass...GREAT! But if it does, it’s best to be ready. Look at the Cold War: The US and the USSR prepared to fight each other (which made sense). Yet, they never actually came to direct blows. So, mutual preparation worked, and avoided war.