And now the chinese are our enemies all of a sudden. And we need to stop them from genociding our friends, the muslims. You know, the people who were our deadly enemies like 5 years ago. Huh.
But hey, there's no propaganda at work here, no sir. We're immune to that shit. We have our freedom, so no one would ever lie to us.
Same as it ever was. I've seen, in my lifetime, the "enemy" be:
Soviets
Iran
Iraq
DPRK
"Muslims"
Iraq again
ISIS flavored Muslims
DPRK again
China
It's always the same spiel, about how they hate us for X reason, and we are perfect angels. Occasionally, there's a piece that recognizes that China/US is a passing of the guard, but they always like to throw in stuff about "guaranteeing free trade" being one of the things that will be missed about US hegemony, as if "free trade" isn't what gave China a huge boost and immeasurably increased the rate of decline of the US.