The excuse I always heard was the affordable care act made it to expensive for companies to keep most workers 40 hours a week. All my friends in the service industry went from one full time job, to 3 part time jobs. Worse hours and pay.
Sun Tzu would be proud, china still attempting to decieve their way into more territory. They would never fight a war for land, they’ll just decieve you about their intentions and economcially bankrupt you until you have to join them.
People get excited when new documents are re-discovered about Japanese Americans in interment camps during WW2, or the Pope apologizing for the church killing indegeonous people in Canada. You can suffer through knowing there was at least one good person in the PLA ~30 years ago.
If you can’t acknowledge the CCP’s ongoing march to retake Taiwan by any means, I would ask if you even read any news. I don’t understand how you think it is a left or right issue, at least in the US, former President Obama was who started the American pivot to the pacific foreign policy in the ancient history of the year 2011.
If there is a peace in Ukraine, the grinder against the Russian military stops. The fear is that Russia will maintain it’s wartime production and conscription. Two years of stockpiling drones, ammunition, and actually training recruits. One might not worry about armored vehicle production when Russia makes over 5,000 shahed-type drones a month.
https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/monthly-analysis-of-russian-shahed-136-deployment-against-ukraine
NATO has never intended on fighting Russia without the US, and with the US acting like a fair weather friend, European politicians and likely NATO may be concerned.