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Necessity is the mother of invention. That's what is happening here and has bifurcated the world, namely into the West vs BRICS. America has sanctioned country after country and weaponized the dollar to the point that, quite frankly, much of the world has grown weary of and have essentially given up on America doing the right thing. The world is no longer interested in American hegemony, it's vision of a rule-based global economy where it calls the shots. Period. America has essentially become the apex predator, a bully, rather than a leader. Take Russia and China, for instance, neither country wants to dominate the world, perhaps their respective regions, but in a fair and just way such that national security and cultural interests are satisfied. I ask you, what is wrong with that desire? Why should these states and others be declared as evil for wanting this? As technology progresses, the world is getting smaller, so to speak. And, with the ultimate official declaration looming ahead that we are not alone in the universe, it seems to me the human family should be focused on working together to maximize human potential. The power of the many is so much stronger than a divided world, and that will most likely prove the key to ensuring homo sapiens is not an evolutionary dead end. Quite frankly, the world is much better off with its cultural differences. It makes the human family far more interesting and better able to respond to future challenges, much like a larger gene pool offers greater chances of long-term survival than a small pool.