Yes. Altough I think that some in the US Department of War start to realize that China will become stronger and therefore harder to challenge. Not to forget, they control large amounts of the rare earths, essential for US weapons production.

But hey, there is Venezuela just around the corner with a "brutal dictator" at the helm and they need some democracy. And who knows, maybe there is a drop of oil and a few grams of gold to find there...

Probably at the end of all these historical shifts, we will end up in a "1984" scenario with three superstates, not exactly within the borders George Orwell imagined, but similar. As they say here where I live: Same same but different. 🙂