It's an oldie, but E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy did alot of this perfectly. You barely change your appearance, but your stats, guns, and skills give you choices and you can use alot of different things for different parts. It prolly helps that I really liked the story, but it's pretty vague and weird.

Haha, that's a solid point! But I really wonder bout our leaders.

Too true. They've been screwing with our economy too, but that's on us for wanting China to make everything for us. When they convert most of their factories to wartime things, they'll out produce us by a staggering amount. Seems like with the military tech Russia is using, they're likely just trying to strain our supply too.

We've had years to become friends and prove to them they don't need such defended borders, but we did the opposite.

Meanwhile, U.S. with their babyboomer population was looking for solutions too. Sure would save Social Security.