TFA tiptoes around US hegemony; as I see it JFK was the last person who seriously proposed[0,1] an end to the Age of Empires, and both he and Khrushchev were cancelled shortly after demonstrating they could work together, having successfully defused the Cuban Missile Crisis.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-john-f-kennedys-inaugural-address" rel="nofollow">https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-john-...</a><p>[1] EDIT: Upon reflection, Gorbachev did what he could; it's not his fault that you can lead people to water but you can't make them drink.
They can try reviving the age of Empires.<p>US hasn’t directly gone into a war with another nuclear superpower.<p>When it does, it gets dirty pretty fast.<p>It hasn’t been a 100 years since nukes were used. And those nukes were weak sauce.<p>The world will slowly get bloody.<p>AI won’t help. It only adds to the fire.
Of course, let's talk about China, Russia and Iran. Not about the US and Israel, who have been bombing everywhere in the ME for decades, and are currently engaged in ethnic cleansing and genocide.