Read Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s article about Deep Seek and why the US needs to embargo China on chips. That is the best way to understand the mind set in Washington. They truly believe this is the AGI/ASI End of History and that the new Thousand Years Reich is at hand.
You have to understand - Indo-Europeans have a 3,000+ years obsession with apocalyptic religions. From the Viking Ragnarok to the Christian Rapture to the Hindu Pralaya, Indo-Europeans are consumed by the idea that we are racing to the “end times” when the world will descend into chaos and then be reborn in fire.
That’s why they rushed to build nuclear weapons and now AI as the new Manhattan Project. They believe that the end of the world is not only inevitable but a glorious outcome as long as they can survive it and rule the rebirth; such is what their religions promise, that the faithful shall be saved from the flames while everyone else burns.