Nuclear weapons have fundamentally changed the strategy of war. I think the desire to solve a problem by going to war will be manifested by conducting warfare by other means. In fact, I think the west is being subjected to warfare by Islamists and by China via the aggression it uses to gain manufacturing capacity by making the cost of doing business in China so low compared to the west that it is a natural decision for business to move there, and then to lose intellectual property via local ownership and an incompetent legal system.
>via the aggression it uses to gain manufacturing capacity by making the cost of doing business in China so low compared to the west that it is a natural decision for business to move there,
No no NO.
We in America did that all by ourselves. - There was no secret Chinese cabal working behind the scenes in dark circles forcing us to over regulate everything endlessly, to tax & fee everything to the nth degree,to have the highest corporate taxes in the world, and to allow unions to run amok with compulsory union memberships with automatically withheld dues.
We did all of that - and we did it mostly with unelected agencies like the EPA & the NLRB.
We are uncompetitive because government here is too damn intrusive!