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IMHO, the reason the Chinese have a winning strategy is because the Chinese government is dominant in their society. American leaders are not stupid (they would literally have to be retarded to explain many actions over the last 7 years)- almost all of them are "ambitious" and their personal ambitions conflict with the needs of the nation. As an example, the Chinese military does not exist primarily to funnel taxpayers' money through connected pockets to other connected pockets. Does anyone actually believe that if China had invaded Iraq, billions of dollars in currency would have "vanished"? IMHO, if China had invaded Iraq, the country would have been pacified and rebuilt by now (because that would have been the intention, unlike the current situation).
Actually, China is pretty corrupt, but then it rarely invades other countries. The mandarins, since long before Mao, have feared their outlying suzerains might slip from under their control, and Iraq-style corruption is a manifestation of that.
And the Chinese army is so corrupt that it took Simonov rifles from its own troops to sell for $100 each to American gun nuts.
What makes them different from us is that the pure profit they made went back to the development of their country. But then America was awfully corrupt 100 years ago; the Republican robber barons had to turn part of what they stole into free libraries and hospitals, the Democratic vote machines created decent jobs for ethnic whites struggling to civilize their children. They were all patriots, in a way we can't understand now.
Super: I agree. The rulers of China appear to have the future strength of China as an important goal. Does anyone actually believe that the rulers of the USA have the future strength of the USA as an important goal- that a country which dominated the global economy 50 years ago declined so dramatically while everyone in a position of power was doing their best to prevent it? I doubt that. The reality is that the rulers of the USA, just like the rulers of Enron, realized that a better deal was to gut the thing from the inside and take what they can.
I can't decide what to worry about more:
that they have a plan for what they will do to us after they destroy society,
or that they don't.
"American leaders are not stupid ... almost all of them are "ambitious" ... "
So remind me, what great accomplishments did the 'decider' have before he was put in charge of US government? Getting off the bottle, maybe.
For me, Peak Oil and the possible social turmoil in its aftermath are a possible way to avoid the Long Great Game War. It is a really, really disruptive event.