It happened to the British Empire. Prior to WW1 it was at its peak. After WW2 there was a new kid on the block: the USA.
Since then, the rest of the world has slowly been catching up. Many US firms use programmers and IT staff in India, for instance. India and China are both building cars. While around a billionpeople in the US and Europe used to be a good number now just India and China have nearly 3 billion between them. They could just ignore all the non-BRICS countries and have more raw materials, more customers, more manpower, more space than the established countries.
The Ukraine situation has meant that The West has forced Russia and China even closer together. That was probably inevitable at some point but the process has just accelerated.
I think so.
It happened to the British Empire. Prior to WW1 it was at its peak. After WW2 there was a new kid on the block: the USA.
Since then, the rest of the world has slowly been catching up. Many US firms use programmers and IT staff in India, for instance. India and China are both building cars. While around a billionpeople in the US and Europe used to be a good number now just India and China have nearly 3 billion between them. They could just ignore all the non-BRICS countries and have more raw materials, more customers, more manpower, more space than the established countries.
The Ukraine situation has meant that The West has forced Russia and China even closer together. That was probably inevitable at some point but the process has just accelerated.