What you said sounds right and logical by what we see and hear in the Media. Unfortunately in my case, I see different things than most people. For example you said…
Re your,
“China is working the most at present to supplant the USA as the world’s leading power ”
Me? I say, “China” is not really China. Its a harbor for manufacturers around the world. For example if I from USA had a manufacturing plant in the USA, and I moved it to China (a place) all the Copper that I need to fabricate widgets, would be delivered to China the place.
Then the news would say…”China is importing all the Copper” No it was ME having it delivered there.
Re your
“China is working the most at present to supplant the USA as the world’s leading power”.
You could say that Global multinational manufacturers already started that back in 1979 and at “present” they are starting to get curtailed with tariffs and or called onto the carpet. China was just along for the ride. The USA was once the chosen “Vendor” by global corporations or inventors starting after 1913 and all the financing that crashed in ’29.
I think the globally active corporations are trying to rotate back to replenish the USA people for their own good. When we went down in 2008 we took the whole planet down with us. So its wise to help the goose that lays golden eggs.
re your..”engaging in military one-upmanship”?
In my view it was a fake false rivalry with USSR after the war (a shot was ever fired) to maintain special interest military spending on both sides until USSR (taxpayers) went bankrupt first. The USA was supposed to get a “peace dividend” and save on spending but that never happened. In fact USSR never stopped wasting money sending rockets up into the sky.
After that happened, I predicted China would be the next fake rivalry. I even figured the global buffoons would want to beef up China with our consumer dollars so they could afford a new unneeded pork barrel arms race.
There will NEVER EVER be another big country against country world war again. They were all gradually intermingled. But they made everybody THINK they still had separate countries. This unfettered mass migration that’s been going on was no coincidence.
The only “wars” I see are the rebels in various countries that are not happy with integration. Signs or evidence? Look at all the populous movements going on. Brexit, Italy, even the USA. And all those Arabs in the M/E. They are not happy at all with the shotgun wedding global integration.
Re your,
“Right now, in the long run, the main economic and military threat to the USA is China.”
In my view? No threat from China, and in the long run, the main economic threat to the USA is another 9/11 its the new modern way of fighting wars. Also the national debt time bomb, or a big stock market crash or big corporate bankruptcy.
Re your.
““The main economic problems the world keeps having are related to the failure and breakdown of global socialism” is not supported by any facts known to me.”
Like Margaret Thatcher once said, socialism is fine, until you run out of other peoples money. In this globalized integrated world, a world that lives as one big Europe, countries with “baggage” were married to countries with no baggage. The USA has lost a lot.
Re your.
“the USA, China, Russia and the EU are causes of the economic problems of the world.”??
Ya know? How about global bankers manipulating everything? Them and their media have been operating like a big global gov’t. And paper money expansion that causes feast or famine. Inflation leading to deflation.
If you have enough butter for five bagels, and try to spread it onto 20 bagels, nobody tastes the butter. I see two global cabals. One is the philanthropists types that love to help underdog countries. The other is the big global corporations that move their nomadic wealth, plus yes greed, and don’t like borders. So the two work together.