This is not merely my opinion, but that of knowledgable AI researchers, many of whom place ASI at not a simple remote possibility, but something they see as almost inevitable given our current understanding of the science.

I don't see myself there, but, given that even the faint possibility of superintelligence would be an instant national security priority #1, grinding China into the dust on that permanently seems like a high reward, low risk endeavor. I'm not recruitable via any levers myself into a competitive ethnostate so I'm an American and believe in American primacy.