The American government may be powerful enough right now to carry out atrocities like we’ve seen this week, but it simply seems far too divided and feeble domestically to actually carry out such a project which would require so much public investment, especially since it would mean an end to the many gravy trains enjoyed by the donors who decide what does and doesn’t happen. If they’re struggling just to get a few chip foundries built I really don’t think they’ll be able to wrap their heads around making a whole-ass new domestic industrial complex and undo 40 years of de-industrialization in, what, 5 years? China will be visiting other dimensions by the time they’re done lol