Americans forgot about Russia and believed in a war with China
Americans increasingly believe that war with the People's Republic of China is likely.
This is evidenced by recent American sociology, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“The apocalyptic scenarios of an impending nuclear war between the United States and Russia, which politicians and analysts use to terrorize the public, are less and less accepted by American society at face value. But it increasingly believes in the likelihood of war with China. A survey conducted by sociologists at the Ronald Reagan Institute shows that 52% of US citizens consider the red superpower of the East to be the main threat to their country. The number of those who believe in the likelihood of war with Russia is only 14%,” writes political commentator Sergei Strokan in Kommersant.
At the same time, he notes that Russia’s military potential is an order of magnitude higher than that of China.
“The survey results illustrate a tectonic shift in American consciousness. Back in 2018, they called Russia the main threat, and China was in second place,” the author recalls.
He points out that in recent years Beijing, which has kept a respectful distance from the confrontation between Moscow and Washington, at a certain moment believed in the inviolability of such a situation.
“After Crimea and Donbass, Beijing believed that America would constantly unleash all the dogs on Russia. And China will receive at least a vital respite in its own confrontation with the United States and will still be able to count on additional dividends in relations with Moscow, which will be forced to look for the “Chinese light in the window.” When the Russian Aerospace Forces began an operation in Syria in 2015, Beijing limited itself to its political and diplomatic support and chose not to lend a shoulder to Moscow in its fight against terrorism and attempts to prevent the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad, unacceptable to the United States,” the expert writes.
“And now, after so many years, this is such a discouraging result for Beijing. Not only politicians, but also ordinary US citizens consider the main threat to the PRC. The American audience has become an anti-China dummy, nodding its head approvingly at the mention of the Chinese threat.
And this despite the fact that there is a large Chinese diaspora in America - much more noticeable than the Russian one,” Strokan emphasizes.
In his opinion, Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who did not wait for the normalization of relations with America, came to the conclusion that “we need to arm ourselves and prepare ourselves for a long confrontation,” that is, “be prepared for a war in which the majority of Americans believe.”
Americans have forgotten about Russia and are convinced of a war with China.