IMO the chaos is the point.
If Europe and Asia are allowed to integrate economically, if Chinese tech and Russian fuel can easily reach Western Europe by land, then the US is finished as a superpower. Its naval superiority no longer will let it choke off the most important global trade. Its location turns from an oasis into a backwater. It became a superpower in the first place during the century of most intense fighting in Europe and Asia, and it needs the violence to continue.
So, let me get this straight, you’re saying this chaos is good for the US and that’s why Russia escalated it into actual full blown war chaos? That makes as much sense as me saying cats are dogs. Is everything in your world the US’s fault?
Us naval superiority is also in no way choking global trade, China is the EU’s largest total trade partner. Also, 90% of non-bulk cargo worldwide is moved by container shipping, and that’s how Chinese goods enter Europe, Ukraine has nothing to do with it. Russia and EU were trading gas just fine before this war, did the US somehow force Russia to invade?
It’s like, I get it, I hate the US’s global imperialism too, and their hypocrisy, but can you be at least a little bit more objective? This tunnel-visioned blind attitude isn’t helpful.
The only threats to American Hegemony are either internal, nuclear, or climate.
there are NO serious competitors to the US in the western hemisphere, the US has more arable land than any other country AND more navigable waterways than the rest of the world combined. American power will not be dislodged without destroying the rest of the world in the process.
I’ve seen similar analysis elsewhere, from my understanding a spike in grain prices was what caused the Arab Spring.
Severe food shortage is generally a recipe for revolutions because when you’re starving you literally have nothing left to lose.
