I think the familiar culture-war/racial veneer kind of obscures that the insistence on the name "Chinese virus" is primarily intended to lay the blame at the feet of the PRC.
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There's already a wing of the GOP that is ready to call it Chinesium Sneezium or whatever the fuck, as both evidence and reason to put boots on the ground in Asia. They want a shooting war because we blinked first on the trade war and it's made them extremely grumpy
Nobody wants war with China. China has a billion people and a formidable military. It would be more suicidal than invading Iran by an order of magnitude.
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No, just a repeat of the Cold War
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neocons and their ideological progeny infect every american institution and all of them have spent essentially every waking moment since the end of the cold war trying to find a way to justify keeping the cold war going and maintain a dynamic that favors their political milieu
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proxy war is inevitable, and tbh most conflicts america has involved itself in since the islam furor died away have been proxies already
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