Why so? Sure, it would be a nice world if no country was a military powerhouse, but that's not the world we live in. If the choice is between the US or China being the military powerhouse, why would you pick China?
There are plenty of us who will be forever bitter about this period in history of US dominance. You may not have noticed from your garden in Virginia, but entire countries have been bombed to rubbles and and entire populations killed or forced to migrate. Still continuing too. In that sense, we’d much prefer actually good and just people ruling the world, not US or Russia or China etc.
Edit: Fix ambiguity.
And again, if the choices are the US or China, why would you consider China to be more "just and fit to rule"?
> your garden in Virginia
I don't live in Virginia and I don't have a garden.
> entire countries have been bombed to rubbles and and entire populations killed or forced to migrate
So you think the US has done more of this than China? Or than other countries? What are you basing that on?
> we’d much prefer actually good and just people ruling the world
What if there aren't any? If you don't think the US makes the grade, who do you think does? Anyone?
>> your garden in Virginia
> I don't live in Virginia and I don't have a garden.
It’s a figure of speech, representing stereotypical upper middle class American.
> If you don't think the US makes the grade, who do you think does? Anyone?
People who actually let others live in peace and harmony, people who are guided by a strong set of morals. If you think you’re free to do whatever, you’ll do whatever. If you think you’re free to do whatever when others aren’t watching, you’ll do whatever when others aren’t watching. Muslims think neither and historically they have a proven track record of compassionate ruling, as opposed to the neo-feudalistic dog eat dog world we live in which is really just Middle Ages Europe with a higher baseline wealth.
Not sure where you're getting that from since the only claim I have made about the US (by implication) is that I think China is worse.
China has not bombed entire countries into ruble. China is not currently sponsoring a state sponsored act of genocide.
I don’t really care what peoples “feelings” are on this. It’s a fact that America has fucked over literally billions of people over absolutely nothing. This is something that China has not done.
Speaking about incentives, China has an incentive to NOT do this. Their economy thrives on a global strong middle class that can buy goods. America does not have this incentive. America’s incentive is to create petrodollar dominance through its military.
So yes, I’m not going to be cheering on China because superpowers generally mean people suffer. I will however cheer on America’s sliding into irrelevance and weakness because it literally means less dead kids and less burnt generations.