there really is something going on - i feel amerikkka realized that they CANNOT compete with china on the new industrial/energy frontier so they've just given up and are hoarding the old one (oil) and building up a fortress mentality. europe is stuck in the middle - it would traditionally side with amerika but trump's tariffs, greenland, nato, russia etc have all made it much more insecure re:its own existence. so it could possibly also side with the rising east. as people living in the imperial core, life for us is gonna get rough (but ofc theres possibility of revolt). hope for the rest of the world tho.