Its becoming clear that China is on track to match or overtake the USA as a global superpower. Since like half of our economy is based on Chinese imports - is there even anything the bourgeoisie / military / intelligence agencies can do about it? Do you think we're going to move more towards conflict or is China going to pimp slap us and tell us to know our role or they won't make any iphones for us or whatever.
Real conflict seems very unlikely but there are psychos like John Bolton who will refuse to accept that USA isn't numba 1 anymore.
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not strictly true. the japanese were the only ones to use chemical weapons, and only rather sparingly. everyone manufactured a whole bunch and trained troops for it (as they do now) but no-one was willing to break the seal when their opponent had access to them too.