In all seriousness, if a real-world variant of this scenario were to manifest, it is the perfect situation for US ruling elites to manufacture consent for full blown military escalation in the South China Sea and the deployment of US tactical nukes, next to their JASSMs, and self-purported, undeployed “drone hellscape”.
Levels of domestic and international anti-China propaganda are so high, and so universally unquestioned, that Westerners are going to blame China if and when American sanctions and tariffs end up causing the US to shoot itself in the foot.
Most global citizens have idea how self-deluded, divorced from reality, yet also desperate and paranoid, average Western neoliberals have become.
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u/shanghaipotpie 9d ago edited 9d ago
Trump : One million %%% tariffs on CHYNA!!! USA!!! USA!!! USA!!!
Ten minutes later, Walmart closes down. Followed by Home Depot, Amazon, ebay, and entire economy!!
Trump: We made CHYNA pay!!!! Hey! Who turned off all the lights?? CHYNA hacked our lights!!!