>>4289586i believe that China is rising and i think of it to be a better pole than the US because it can't export its culture and mindset so easily and subvert the aligned countries
the Union had to destroy the rural south in order to fully advance into the industrial age
after roughly 100 years it proceeded to offshore its industrial production in order to concentrate on services and online/tech/finance
but ICT and finance don't win kinetically
they only hold up for as long as the social contract empowering them does