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14. I think we are about to see the return to a multipolar world.
Mon Feb 24, 2025, 01:41 AM
3 hrs ago

The near century-long close alliance between the US and the various and combined European powers could completely fracture. This means the end of NATO and significant trade and diplomatic friction. I don’t see the US, Russia, and China building any sort of real partnership as their leaders’ self-interests conflict too much.

Instead, I see the decline of any superpower over the next decades – the US giving up a large part of its global influence through trade wars, defunct foreign aid, and general isolationism while China ‘s once growing economy wanes due to demographic collapse. You may see the rise of regional powers and loose coalitions, but I think we are headed for a period of significant readjustment of the geopolitical order.

I hope I am wrong, and we recover our national senses and rebuild the partnerships that have maintained relative world peace for 80 years.

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