[DoughtyOne]

Saw this coming 30 years ago, when I stated the USA’s youth
would have to be called out to sacrifice their lives due
to what Congress was doing.

It won’t be long > IMO.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Mr. Thayer remains confident in America, saying the country has great ideological strengths over the communist regime.

I'm not so sure about this. The US has been in ideological freefall the past ten years. For example, the United States thinks feminists should run its military.

China is ruled by a one-pary state, which sucks for the Chinese, but its government actually intervenes less in the economy than in the US:

China is a country with a low to moderate government spending ratio. Total government expenditure amounted to around 33 percent of the GDP in 2022, while this amounted to nearly 39 percent in the United States.

Government finances in China - statistics & facts
https://www.statista.com/topics/11499/government-finances-in-china/#:~:text=China%20is%20a%20country%20with,percent%20in%20the%20United%20States.

[vpintheak]

Selling is the rope to hang ourselves. I believe it.

[Feckless]

“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
― Vladimir Ilich Lenin

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Somewhere I read that 90% of the Chinese navy can’t....or won’t....travel more than 400 miles from it’s coastline.

Don’t know if that’s true, but all the crap we have in the U.S. that says “Made in China” makes it all possible.

[faithhopecharity]

USA administration also funds, enables the Moslem terrorist murder gangs Hamas PLO-Fatah and (via the Lebanese government they effectively control) Hezballah. USA administration also sends money to the Iranian dictators.

Funding sworn enemies of USA is not a Success Policy for USA

[SauronOfMordor]

Trump had a solution in 2016. A 20-30% tariff on Chinese goods would have put a lid on their economy and brought a lot of manufacturing back. Especially if we put a lid on the EPA.