I mostly agree. But I think most people see it as brief intervention period, and then the military would be restoring political democracy. I personally don't think it would be positive at all for the reasons you mentioned. But also life would lost for sure. Though I do think if the riots continued last year, at some point military would have stepped in.

However, I remember when the US early in the pandemic ran out of masks, since the masks were manufactured in China and was telling its people masks were not necessary, to preserve supplies for healthcare workers. Recently the chip shortages are causing car manufacturing to grind to a halt.

Is the US military anything without industry? Seems to me like almost under all scenarios, US military success, is heavily based on US industry's ability to supply its weapons and logistical needs. With politicians behind outsourcing so much to China, can the US even sustain any direct conflict. Seems to me, that diminishing industrial capability has to be a giant sore point for the military. Especially when there are money trails of some politicians accepting money from China.