As documented below, the US is now badly lagging behind communist China in almost everything from hypersonic missile development, through to AI technologies, as the US has pursued woke and a war against conservatives, while commo China has pursued world domination. Experts are saying that it will be all over in 15 to 20 years, yet at the pace the crisis is developing World War III would have occurred long before that. So, it may well be that a military conflict occurs before the US faces economic collapse. The slide into global chaos is happening at record speed, much faster than in the 1930s and much deadlier.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18512/pentagon-losing-to-china