There is nothing in the human condition that is "permanent" and to say otherwise is as idiotic as when Francis Fukuyama wrote the book 'The End of History?' after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Even a conventional war with China would crash the US economy, permanently.
Think permanently broken supply chains >>> hyper-inflation >>> US dollar crash >>> stock-market crash >>> debt crash >>> social chaos >>> and next?
I just hope everyone’s ready
Why Is The U.S. So Ridiculously Dependent On China?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2020/04/30/...
Apr 30, 2020 · Take pharmaceuticals for example. Over 70% of active pharmaceutical ingredients used in the U.S. market are produced overseas. Almost all …
> Even a conventional war with China would crash the US economy, permanently. <
I don’t know about permanently, but you’re more right than wrong. China makes a huge percentage of our consumer goods. Replacing all that would send inflation through the roof, as you noted.
As a side note, I took a stroll through Lowe’s the other day. Everything except the lumber seemed to be made in China. The nails, the buckets, the artificial Christmas trees...China, China, China.
Let it all burn. We need to get rid of tons of dead weight anyway.
The US will not initiate hostilities against China, in any circumstances - not because it would violate traditional American concepts of democracy and freedom, but because America is decaying, en route to cultural death. If we have a war with China, it will be simply because China desires conflict...
There is nothing in the human condition that is "permanent" and to say otherwise is as idiotic as when Francis Fukuyama wrote the book 'The End of History?' after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.