Sense Sonnet - Chiller

Slow Boil

The Sputnik moment was cold war
Between Russia and the U.S..
Losing did make the U.S. sore.
The name of the game was success.
Today, U.S. adversaries
Have learned new ways to play the game.
Don't let the U.S. ever seize
Any moment with gotcha name.
Instead just let the U.S. sink,
Pulled down by debt and other woes.
Just sit back with a nod and wink
As U.S. gasps in its last throes.

No Sputnik moment epilogue.
What's Chinese for the boiling frog?