Nobody should doubt for a second that the US would prefer for the entire Global South to capitulate to its hegemonic demands and thus become this declining unipolar power’s vassal states, but since it’s powerless to impose its will upon every one of them, it’ll ultimately have to settle for accepting their balanced relations between all New Cold War protagonists per the model that India has pioneered.
The collapse of the empires in the 20th Century compels a multipolar world order.
No one wants to be dominated by China any more than America.
Russia understands this.
But the entire American ruling class, both parties, still adhere to the Yalta world view: different orthodoxies, but essentially Yalta, and with a typically shallow understanding that comes with orthodoxy. MAGA is jus as "Yalta" as Klause Schwab.
It hasn't occurred to any of them that the empires Yalta rested upon are gone and so it Yalta.
The world has become far too compolicated for the Sods in the U.S. State Dept.who still themselves as a cross between Jean-Luc Picard and James Bond.
Yup!
The collapse of the empires in the 20th Century compels a multipolar world order.
No one wants to be dominated by China any more than America.
Russia understands this.
But the entire American ruling class, both parties, still adhere to the Yalta world view: different orthodoxies, but essentially Yalta, and with a typically shallow understanding that comes with orthodoxy. MAGA is jus as "Yalta" as Klause Schwab.
It hasn't occurred to any of them that the empires Yalta rested upon are gone and so it Yalta.
The world has become far too compolicated for the Sods in the U.S. State Dept.who still themselves as a cross between Jean-Luc Picard and James Bond.