Article criticizes those who push for peace like Putin and Orban in the same bucket as Hitler/Trump. But that Trump playbook does rhyme Hitler's.
Piece starts with an economics lesson that is mostly true: Investing in people can offset a financialization focus instead of a production focus. The missing truth is that your wealth is the ease to pick up a cheap axe from box store, regardless of where it was made. High wages with overall high cost of living, still provides access to more cheap goods.
Author still loves US militarist colonialism, and so it breaks down his WW3 fears, when extorting allies into harsher colonialism may be needed to push Russia/China into more defense spending, so that the US can (is forced to) spend on more offense. This means a slight delay to ww3, but its not as though the ignorant aren't cheering for one of the bipartisan sides for end of times.
WW3 is entirely up to the colonies response to US extortion in forcing their suicide. Even with colonies, the US loses badly, and it is defense budget extortion on world that is objective rather than actual war, but colonies can band together to prevent such extortion and accelerate US collapse instead of begging for their own collapse to prop up US.