Remembering the "21 lessons for the 21st century" and how Harari described the arm-wrestling between the various ideologies/worlds, I see the the world is split in 3 (3.5) pieces.
1) The West (US-EU-satellites - writing first coz I'm in it)
2) The anti-west: Russia and satellites, Iran, NK, etc.)(they broke SO MANY EGGS but still - no omelette - well apart from the very few who rule via death)
3) The indifferent giants (they are planning their own world domination - soon)(see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TKMw8)(China is next, then perhaps India(?))
0.5) The remaining 0.5 (e.g. some African countries that will just follow whoever gives them goodies/is the next global overlord).
In IT I use the phrase: the more you do, the more you need to do. I.e. you have 10 systems, you need to do 100 things (backups, encryption, training, etc.). When you go to 20 systems and 5 are talking to each other you also need job schedulers, and you add in the connected dots and complexity (thus more assets produce more effort)
You got a wikipedia? There is a new attack/manipulation opportunity (available to all the players). The more you got, the more you need to do.
Now, why I care.. (this is not about politics/religion)
I got some stocks and mutual funds. If the "West" is going "down", I want to make sure that my/the next generations will not receive a bunch of SP500 that is worth $0, so do I start NOW to buy "China", "India"? Also, should we be telling our kids to start learning Chinese? (as we were told to learn English)
What should we start doing NOW to be better positioned in the Future? (my favorite Future related drawing: https://puzzledpagan.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/doomfuture....)