The world is returning, in part, to pre-Great War interests. Russia is restoring the Orthodox Church and has shed communism. Turkey is shedding Attaturk’s secular state and seems to be trying to regain the lost Ottoman Empire. We shouldn’t be surprised if the Ottoman successor states join to oppose Turkey.
The Chinese Communist state will probably collapse and a new China will be born, maybe as several countries.
why do I feel dirty reading something from Erickson?