Thread by @caitoz

Not even the craziest imperialists want a hot war with China. They'd much prefer China to bow and be absorbed into the US-centralized empire as so many other nations before, or to collapse and fragment after a decades-long subversion campaign a la the USSR. In that order. 1/

The empire will happily make life miserable for Chinese people in coming decades to pressure Beijing into accepting that it's in the people's interests that the PRC kiss the ring.

The problem of course is that China will be resisting these maneuvers in ways that can blow up. 2/

It's entirely possible for any of the planned escalations and proxy conflicts geared toward undermining nuclear-armed China to provoke a response which causes a chain reaction from which there is no return. A simple miscommunication, misfire or weapons malfunction could do it. /3

In a steadily intensifying "great power competition" that imperialists are saying will likely consume the entire 21st century, that's a lot of opportunities for something to go catastrophically wrong. We repeatedly came close to this in the last cold war:
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And none of this insane brinkmanship is necessary. There's no reason the US and China can't simply get along and work toward the benefit of the world together. The only obstacle to this is a few western imperialists deciding US unipolar hegemony must be preserved at all cost. /5

There's no legitimate reason the life of every terrestrial organism must be gambled over some moronic geostrategic agenda which benefits none of us, just because a few people with too much power got some idiotic ideas between their ears. /6

Don't consent to the new cold war. They're working so hard to manufacture the consent of the public for this bullshit because they require that consent. So don't give it to them. Fight the unleashing of this omnicidal horror every step of the way. 7/7