This sounds like something I would hear in Russia. Those who have at least fraction of functioning brain will ask question "If every citizen will be grinded in name of superpower then what everyone will get? 2 by 2 in the nearest forest and a wooden cross."

When state acquires its own will that contradists of majoroty of own citizen, it is not a state. Maybe it is Prutin's mafia, maybe it is China's puppet, but not a state.