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The big difference is that China can in fact defend itself. Unlike Iraq China is a nuclear power with a large and strong army. Starting a way with China would hurt the US very much.
Furthermore US supply chains are dependent on Chinese manufacturing. If a war disrupts the shipments of consumer goods to the US the very consumerism that is the only thing the US has to offer will no longer be possible.
I don't think US imperial bureaucrats are interested in a way with China the same way they were with Iraq. It is rather a questions of internal US politics.
I don’t want to be rude but I have a legit question. Were you old enough to actually be cognizant through it?
I was in middle school at the time, and even then I recognized that Americans were working themselves up into a frothing rage where any questioning of the official pro-war line was seen as tantamount to treason.
If we go to war over just the Xinjiang narrative I will personally apologize to all of chapo for believing it.
All my left-lib friends and family who were against the Iraq invasion have bought the anti-Chinese propaganda. (A lot of libs were against the Iraq war.)
Soyviking also makes a good point from a different angle.
