It doesn't smell right because it probably isn't right... Try to look at the "bigger picture" here... and you realize there is a broad categorical stroke of the brush being painted by the US in terms of its China containment strategy....
This is as "Big Picture" and most broadly categorical stroke of the brush as it gets: the global world as a whole in aggregate totality is now fastly running out of useable energy, and we have peaked in late 2019 in terms of both the quantity and quality of high-density energy sources available for our collective use... there is very likely no coming back from this point of no return... a massive population die-off is all but inevitable.
As a result of this new reality, the US elites in power have realized the point of inflection has been crossed and that the new rate-limiting factor is now all about raw resources and energy reserves. In this new paradigm of ever-shrinking zero-sum or negative-sum pie/game, the strategy has shifted to one of cannibalization and harvesting of smaller proxy nations, and of vassals and "allies" alike and as America is still the current hegemon its only real play here is to get out of/from under the US dollar before the rest of the world has a chance to figure out what happened...
That nest egg (401k, pension, cash, etc) you saved up is not going to be there for you for the simple fact that the global useable energy is gone... the purchasing power of money was always almost entirely inflated by the availability of cheap and abundantly high-quality energy (and the “work/productivity multiplier effect” derived thereof) and the assumption that it would always be the case of remaining exercisable and actualizable into perpetuity.....
Money is just a mere abstract symbolic token representation of the ability of cheap and abundant higher EROEI (Energy Returned on Energy Invested) energy to do 'work' on our behalf. No amount of funny-money fiscal policy can change the fact that the underlying physical system that powers absolutely everything we do has ran out of energy. It does the world absolutely zero net-benefit to expend more energy to extract, process and make useable an energy source than the energy we can get out of it, regardless of how much money someone is willing to pay for it. Likewise, Ethanol as a net-energy-sink (basically converting oil to fertilizers to grow corn and then reconverting corn back to fuel) also does nothing but serve to make our collective energy problem that much worse regardless of how much the government is willing to economically/price subsidize for it.
When the quality and quantity of energy available to us continues to decline and decrease, then proportionately so does the value or purchasing power of the money that we hold... for that money was a mere representation of the 'multiplier-effect' of energy/work and the resulting productivity that cheap energy had amplified and enabled. But with the energy depleted so too does our money become worthless.
The US extracts wealth from the rest of the world... but like all things on the top of the food pyramid chain it relies on the much larger lower bottom base to prop it up. Since the global energy resources have peaked, then mathematically it is all but certainty that global de-growth will be the reality going forward... No more global growth means the entire pyramid scheme and house of cards that America built its empire upon will come collapsing down...
The US dollar is about to implode supernova style... As the US is the current global hegemon, the only way it can get out from under its own petrodollar hegemony FIRST without attracting the wrong kind of attention and alerting/setting off global panic of selling dollars is to invent a global distraction (CIA releases COVID) and then follow it up with global chaos (Afghan, Taiwan, HK, SCS, etc) to give the pretext justification for printing like there is no tomorrow, in order to get out from the dollar leaving the rest of the world holding the bag.... and furthermore by destabilizing the world through engineered chaos the US is inducing artificial global demand destruction to price most of the world out so that it can print to infinity with unlimited "quantitative-easings" to buy up everything with essentially free money.
Having seen the writing on the wall (see REPO mess) America's strategy is to exit the dollar and leave the rest of the world, including China to be holding the proverbial bag of excrement, and its intentional COVID failure, and Afghan failures are all part of its pre-planned exit strategy to create global chaos and induce artificial-demand-destruction on global scale in order to best position itself for the coming times and shore up and consolidate its own positions at the direct expense of harvesting the rest of the world by means of infinite quantitative easing through weaponization of its petrodollar hegemony and global reserve currency status
Releasing the CIA Biovirus and setting off a global pandemic (whilsts simultaneously planting it in Wuhan to both frame and blame CHYNA its greatest geopolitical rival in the process) with continued "variants" iteration releases serves to effectuate the goal of severely dampening global economic activity, and disproportionately targeting the developing third world (since they will get hit the hardest economically and also recover the slowest due to US vaccine shitplomacy hoarding...) thereby indirectly allowing America to put the squeeze on the rest of the world, asymmetrically targeting non-vassals and pricing out the poorer regions of the world so that they are much less able to compete for the remaining dwindling global resources/energy reserves
THINK BIG PICTURE... In geopolitics there are no Coincidences... COVID was THE single largest broadest categorical stroke of the proverbial brush so to speak that the US/West could have painted against China and the East (and rest of developing world) under the guise, pretense and shadow of plausible denialability whilsts effectuating the desired goal of reshaping a new world order with the West back on top and America consolidated and secured as preeminence above all.....
