Your choices are America, China, or Russia. That's it.
You may not like it, but you can't do anything about it, and denying it and raising a fuss about it is childish naivety, not at its finest, but at its absolute worst.
Don't sleep on the EU. They are largest economic/political entity in the world. Not america, not china, not russia. The EU represents the world's largest market, has a larger population than the US, larger defense budget than china, currency that could possibly replace the dollar one day and a legacy/network of former colonial possessions all over the world.
I prefer not to have a single master but a multi-polar world where countries learn to use a diplomacy and do things for a mutual benefit rather than submit to the biggest dick on a street. And I think this is where the world is going.
That transition happened at basically the precise point the world transitioned from a multipolar situation to a bipolar one.
I'm not saying bipolarity brought peace, but there's hardly any evidence that we've gotten any better at multipolar situations.
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