agreed that china is the u.s.'s biggest challenge. in similar (but not identical) form to the 20th century major power balances, america needs a resilient strong military to meet that. but it's not going to be the same way that the u.s. tackled warsaw pact/soviets during 1950s-80s the 'muh islamism'/iran is mostly cia-israel sponsored bullshit; look into what actually happened on 9/11 and oct 7th
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