[throwaway15908]

No one is born as your foe, they gradually become it. Fleeing into "but imagine what china would do" is exactly that, its creation.

Tracing the cirlce of violence back you can only state, that it has always been this way but that is also just a weak excuse of affective apes.

[watwut]

Are you assuming that literally everyone except Americans is purely reactive with no own ambitions and ideologies?

That is incredibly arrogant look at the world.