/tinfoil you're thinking internationally, you should be thinking supra-nationally. Some elements within China and USA wanted economic warfare (sanctions, depen

/tinfoil you're thinking internationally, you should be thinking supra-nationally. Some elements within China and USA wanted economic warfare (sanctions, dependence-decoupling) to prove they can come out on top Every war inflicts damage to both sides, as soon as you lob one bomb you should expect more lobbed back at you what war really is is applying enormous economic strain (both offense and defense) until one side collapses From that view, the decision to release a virus that plausibly emerged from a Chinese lab performing research tied with US scientists creates a solid fog of who's responsible, both sides deny an attack happened at all, and the war mongers get to have their economic game that ideally (for them) leads to such jingoism on both sides that hot war becomes a likely outcome /tinfoil