Who Should Lead The World ???

Mike Whitney has posted this "geopolitical quiz for the day":

Two countries are embroiled in a ferocious rivalry. One country’s meteoric growth has put it on a path to become the world’s biggest economic superpower while the other country appears to be slipping into irreversible decline. Which country will lead the world into the future?

Country A builds factories and plants, it employs zillions of people who manufacture things, it launches massive infrastructure programs, paves millions of miles of highways and roads, opens new sea lanes, vastly expands its high-speed rail network, and pumps profits back into productive operations that turbo-charge its economy and bolster its stature among the nations of the world.

Country B has the finest military in the world, it has more than 800 bases scattered across the planet, and spends more on weapons systems and war-making than all the other nations combined. Country B has gutted its industrial core, hollowed out its factory base, allowed its vital infrastructure to crumble, outsourced millions of jobs, off-shored thousands of businesses, plunged the center of the country into permanent recession, delivered control of its economy to the Central Bank, and recycled 96 percent of its corporate and financial profits into a stock buyback scam that sucks critical capital out of the economy and into the pockets of corrupt Wall Street plutocrats whose voracious greed is pushing the world towards another catastrophic meltdown.

Which of these two countries is going to lead the world into the future? Which of these two countries offers a path to security and prosperity that doesn’t involve black sites, extraordinary rendition, extrajudicial assassinations, color-coded revolutions, waterboarding, strategic disinformation, false-flag provocations, regime change and perennial war?

Source - https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/china-and-russia-whoopin-uncle-sam-at-his-own-game/

People may not like to see our nation portrayed this way, but aren't his descriptions spot on? We're leading the world into a living hell, and if We the People aren't going to stop it the rest of the world probably will try.

And all nations will suffer because of it ... us included.

Here is additional discussion:

https://asiatimes.com/2022/10/china-chip-ban-a-us-exercise-in-extreme-self-harm/

Shooting ourselves in the foot yet again.