[jinonoel]

>If China is allowed to gain upper hands on the United States, it will result in broad scale societal problems which I couldn't even begin to estimate. Imagine a world where Russia is allowed to take Europe. Imagine a world where the United States is convinced to stand by as Taiwan is invaded and our chip supply is shut down.

When You're Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression. The world doesn't need to imagine, because we had to stand by while the US launched illegal wars in Iraq, continues the unjust economic sanctions on Cuba just just for election politics, or all the shenigans the CIA pulled in South America in the previous decades. Heck just this month the US has said it will ignore a WTO ruling[1] just because it says so and everyone will have to stand by.

The multipolar world threatens Americans so much because they'll finally have to live like there's another version of themselves in the world.

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-12-12/supply...

[disgruntledphd2]

That's totally fair, and as a non American, I have a bunch of sympathy for this viewpoint.

The US government have behaved like absolute shitheels for much of the Cold War and beyond.

That being said, they have a relatively free press and relatively fair and liberal laws, especially compared to China.