Not always... a single issue "friend" isn't generally enough to stay that way and bigger issues can prevail. While I appreciate a lot of the hardware and hard

Not always... a single issue "friend" isn't generally enough to stay that way and bigger issues can prevail. While I appreciate a lot of the hardware and hard work that comes from China, I think their government makes them adversarial to the point where the US should seriously work on shoring up domestic production and alternative supply chains. China has been working hard to make the US unnecessary for their own. Not many countries can really exist without at least their neighbors, but it's very concerning. Similarly with alignments with Russia going through. Not that I advocate for the military interventions going on right now for the most part... I just think the US govt and industry have become so short sighted to the point that long term harm is inevitable.