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This is- upon thinking and reading it over properly once or twice, actually not so unimaginable. A fair bit of it already has happened, some of it is happening, and others could easily happen again and are well on track to doing so (and they're pretty honest about their intentions for the straits of Malacca as someone whose family is from the region- and unofficial invasions/regime change/etc of Mexico is absolutely possible and perhaps more likely as the contradictions of empire increase).
Of course, in the midst of all the genocides (domestic and being waged abroad), slavery, sterilization, starvation, and warmongering they'll also continue touting themselves as the "beacons of democracy," the paragons of "freedom" and "human rights." Just as they are now while being guilty of arguably around half of what you described, just as they have for their almost-250 years of settler barbarism... and of course it honestly won't matter (though we all know it wouldn't) which "party" and figureheads are running the show.