Group inertia overcoming and drowning out any remaining individual brilliance. Right now, the US is like late Qing dynasty China.It's going to be an interesting time to see how well Mark's argument is going to hold up or look like within the time frame he expects which is 18 months.
It seems that Mark's analysis like all analysis aren't free of personal bias or tainted by his own preferences in economics and political ideology.
It's also interesting to note that much of many so called experts on areas where hard science is not involved, the blather don't configure China into their analysis, and if they do it's done belatedly, a footnote, and if it must be included it'll be in a negative fashion to essentially be used as the scapegoat for their systems failure.
It's a bit concerning to sort of realize that a lot of American thinking or so called "strategic thinking" are actually mostly HOT AIR. Has the American mind athropied or is suffering from inertia? Which is why we see or can observe their actions being made are sort of done quixotically and in my opinion rudderless.
There's a coherent and consistent strategy alright and that's a consistency in creating bogeyman in order to create a condition for their people to coalesce and be manipulated into doing their military-security-political-industrial complex. I am just gobsmacked when thinking about this thing. It is kind of scary.
