Especially when the majority of US weapons rely on chips from China (including Taiwan) to manufacture weapons. If the government decides to go to war with China head-on, China will absolutely wipe the walls with them.

In addition to Ukraine and Palestine, see also: Lebanon, Syria, etc. Every war but the current is the perfect summation of this phenomenon.

Fred Hampton, he showed a generation how to build dual power and properly threaten the settler colonial governments of North America. Sadly, that government saw the threat to power he actually posed because he was so effective and they murdered him for it.