Okay, I'm at the point with this Civil War shit that I'm becoming skeptical that it'll ever happen & result in balkanization or "peaceful divorce", Antifa are no longer gaining traction in the U.S., they've hit their upper limit for what the public deems acceptable & parents are pushing back against Marxism being taught in schools. Antifa are a minority group & they're opposed to the rest of the nation. People tolerate them insofar as they don't step on the wrong toes, the instant they do they're fucked. No, China can not & will not rise to be the new global superpower. They don't have the strength or the manpower, their economy is currently imploding & the real estate market bubble in China is now finally popping. People are waking up & pushing back against this shit in droves now.
These people love to compare the U.S. to ancient Rome, but do you know what the United States has that Rome didn't? Geographic supremacy. The prevailing reason Rome fell is because 1) they were surrounded by enemies on all sides all the time who collaborated with each other to fuck with Rome & 2) they constantly needed forces to enforce their borders & 3) the nature of their predicament meant they not only benefitted from constant geographic annexation, they had to annex other nations and finally 4) they had to maintain order & borders in these regions & stretch their forces thin, to the point it became West Rome & East Rome.
The United States does not suffer from such pressures, the United States owns all its land from coast to coast, it only has two neighbors both of whom are militarily insignificant, only one is a consistent problem that could be solved with a BIG, BEAUTIFUL WALL.
This also goes without mentioning that the United States is technologically superior to Rome in every way, we don't need aqueducts, we have pipes. We don't need torches, we have lightbulbs. We don't need scribes, we have the internet. We don't need chariots, we have tanks. We don't need arrows, we have drones. We don't need spears, we have guns.
The withdrawal from Afghanistan is not a good indicator of the fall of the United States either, not only is Afghanistan known as the graveyard of empires but Ancient Rome never included Afghanistan. That goes without mentioning that the military was acting seditiously against Trump when he wanted to withdraw from the ME & that Biden/Milley bungled the whole affair by making it much worse than it ever had to, be it by willful spite, incompetence or both.
Antifa is an unpalatable ideology that can't grow with ease, it relies on lies, ignorance & terrorism to get its way, they're functionally no different from ISIS, except their violence has yet to reach the same extremes as their ME cousins. Not only that, but Antifa have been fucking with drug lords & getting themselves killed.
Now, due to Joe Biden's incompetence in the Afghan withdrawal, the left are breaking apart & flinging shit at each other, nobody wants to support Biden & day by day it looks more & more likely he'll serve a full term and self-congratulatorily run for another term. Because of that, the left are no longer united nor will they be again to take on ORANGE MAN, because the guy they put in will just fuck them & make them look bad.
No, sorry, I don't see the United States going the way of Rome.
China on the other hand, suffers from all the same shit as Rome & worse, they're openly antagonistic with surrounding nations which all hate their guts, most of which have military superiority over them.
Not only that but the Chinese are inept at a cultural level, their leader believes in the same shit as Mao Zedong that plunged the country into abject poverty & has begun new purges & a new Cultural Revolution. Mao Zedong believed in Lysenkoism, Xi Jingping wants to be the new Mao Zedong, the math points toward a new Chinese famine on the horizon, not to mention that China is entirely reliant on United States crops to feed their people, which was exacerbated by massive floods this year that destroyed their crops. Oh and how often does China lose crops to locust swarms? I forget.
This goes without mentioning the other problem China shares with Rome, government corruption. China uses a top-down system of authority, since the CCP took power in the late 1940's, all ground level authorities lie to top officials to avoid penalization for shortcomings. This culture of corruption has also resulted in lower officials selling top grade materials on the black market & substituting it with shitter grade materials under the noses of their government.
China has one
severe disadvantage that Ancient Rome had to remedy constantly, which by the nature of their government China will not, and that's the fact everyone in the Chinese military are just like Mike Milley. The top brass are all brownnosers who wormed their way up to the top by kissing ass to their predecessors. None of them have seen action, none of them are militarily competent & none of them have the grit it takes to stand war. And that's just the top brass, the grunts are made up of pampered only-children who don't want to fight & only joined the military as a career option or for status. Not one of them is prepared to fight in a war. The difference here is that China has incompetent leadership up & down who can't, don't & won't drill their units to be effective at warfare, because they're consumed with parades & appearances instead. They in no way function or act like a serious military, they're a hollow show piece.
This all goes without mentioning the fact that the only reason China is the world's factory is because they exploit mandate that makes it cheaper to transport goods to & from them because they're still classified as a developing nation, that means they deliberately hold back on improving infrastructure to maintain this status, meaning even their own buildings, roads, sewers & power lines are shit on purpose.
Oh and let's talk about the Three Gorges Dam, the most critical piece of infrastructure China has, which was poorly engineered & is expected to collapse & flood the whole of Eastern China any day now.
The idea of China rising to superpower status over the U.S. is a
farce.