No joke.
They've looted Social Security, they looted the treasury, they've turned half the country into a flophouse for foreigners....The government now sees what is left of U.S. citizens as a burden, heavy luggage, an empty money pit that they've nearly squeezed into total bankruptcy.
For some time I’ve held that China will start a major war just to, um, balance the gender ratio there.
Your post invokes a sobering thought.
The fastest way to reduce population and supercharge an economy is war; the only way to resolve the >$100T unfunded obligations, short of default or hyperinflation, is to terminate the obligators and push the taxable economy into overdrive.
The Left needs a war. A big one.