[dfwgator]

What would replace it?

[calenel]

“What would replace it?”

Probably something inward-looking like post Soviet Russia. We’d get a few decades of less harassment as they focused on rebuilding and restoring regional relationships.

All speculative.

[metmom]

It almost doesn’t matter because in the period of instability, it will allow many nations to throw off the yoke that China has been trying to put on them.

[metmom]

And honestly, couldn’t the same have been said about the USSR collapsing?