[JohnBrookz]

Empire maintenance is hard. USAID was a form of soft power that prevented the necessary use of blunt force.

Given the rhetoric against China, the consolidation of power and rise of nationalistic fervor. I suppose we’re just a few years from war with China. Presumably under a false flag operation ala Gulf of Tonkin style.

Fascism is capitalisms iron fist.

[jimmydoe]

China has its own internal nationalism pressure against foreign aid.

[toomuchtodo]

War with China might be necessary to purge US fascism.