It's 2031: "the seeseepee is finished" I gloat as congress passes the biggest climate change bill ever: a law making it illegal to notice the wildfires burning down your house. China has reduced carbon emissions to less than half of what they were 10 years ago.
It's 2047: "China is about to fall" I insist as I hide in my bunker from the roaming gangs of micro plastic mutants. China now has high speed rail to even the remotest villages.
2055: "I will kill pooh with my bare hands" I laugh as I stand on the deck of the rusted battleship I've been conscripted to. What remains of the us government has conscripted everyone under the age of 75 in the epic battle against tyranny of communism.
2056: "I will work to build global communism!" I say to myself smiling as I read theory in my room in a Chinese reeducation center.
The Chinese won the war of 2055 by handing out bottled water, cans of spam and peaches in heavy syrup to American soldiers.
Only the American soldiers over 35 remembered clean water. When the Chinese gave out the bottles they wept for joy
Their 11yr old daughter puts her pipe rifle aside, gently places her hand on theirs and says "Da, you couldn't have known. The dysentary Ma died from wasn't your fault".