Re your concerns about US global domination

Come on now, enough with the hyperbole. The US has been a superpower for 60 years, the beginning of which was marked with rebuilding Europe and Japan insead of enjoying the spoils of war, then turned to creating international organizations like NATO and the UN as a response to Soviet expansion, and then worked to clean up hotspots like Yugoslavia, Kuwait, and Bosnia.

I can't say I approve every US action in that span of time (particularly in South America and Southeast Asia), but the basis of comparison is the Europeans. This is a group of people who, when they had the power to, raped and pillaged the rest of the planet for 500 years, before just about destroying themselves in two wars. Now suddenly they're the moral compass for the rest of the planet?

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China has what is called a "Minimal Deterrance Strategy". That is, they save on military spending against the US by getting the delivery systems and nukes for the American west coast. They feel that, they could protect the nation and the government from American nukage and "kill" invasions by threatening to nuke the West Coast. They don't feel it's necessary to nuke the entire US, because they don't feel the US is willing to trade LA for China.

They're very pissed off about Anti-Ballistic Missile because that means they have to build more nukes, more ICBMs, and develop MIRVs.