I agree with your assessment, however the question is how much economic pain can american public endure? americans aren't exactly known to have a high tolerance for pain
Thats the main weakness of democrazy, too much of an economic hardship and democrats will be voted out next election, and will hasten the total disintegration of american society
With the current political situation in the us i don't think its a good idea to subject the american people to more suffering
It will be a slow managed decline rather than a one-off huge shock, and the western MSM will blame it all on China anyways.
The key to the American public swallowing this raw deal is if the EU follows suit and also suffers to a similar degree.
The American public has long been brainwashed and conditioned to sneer at developing countries and reject any positive news out of China as propaganda.
As such, the only thing that could challenge the planned western MSM narrative of ‘this is as good as it can get’ is if the Europeans start to do significantly better. That is why it is imperative for America to drag the EU down with with so they are also in the same shitty boat.
Notice how the western world have basically just accepted the catastrophic deaths they have needlessly suffered from COVID as a fact of life without much serious complaint despite all the evidence to how few deaths were both possible and attainable had their leaders displayed any foresight and base competence.
That is because Europe and America only really accept each other as ‘worthy’ benchmarks to compare their performances against. Everything else can be easily ignored and dismissed by the western MSM.
As such, so long as America can keep the EU ‘on side’, their people will take a freight train up the arse and just accept that as normal and still rave about how they are the ‘greatest country there ever was or ever will be’.
