[bnralt]

I think it's understated how well the current U.S. centered alliance has worked. I've never seen a name for it (G7 Alliance, maybe?), but it's broadly Western Europe, U.S., Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea. There's no one treaty uniting all the countries, but there are many overlapping treaties and alliances, and they tend to act in concert (if you look at which countries have sanctioned Russia during the recent war, it's almost entirely this group). This group also has a massive amount of people, wealth, knowledge and productive capacity. And though the U.S. is the linchpin and definitely the most powerful member, members are free to disagree and no one member calls the shots.

It's also interesting, because there doesn't seem to be any competing power block. People talk about things like BRICS, but that's little more than a conference between countries that don't share much in common and often are rivals as much as friends.

[ncmncm]

Probably the most stark fact within that group is how the US has very deliberately abandoned most of its population to all the storms blowing through. That the worst-abandoned reliably vote to be abandoned just tells us how effective systematic propaganda has become, and how thoroughly the 0.01% controls it.

Directing the attention of the rest of the world's underclass has been an afterthought, but that is changing.

[seydor]

It's the American alliance, one world bound by trade under the US navy and military. But now the pax americana is threatened by at least 2 adversaries

[WaxProlix]

> I've never seen a name for it

FWIW, this aligns pretty well with the OECD nations [1]. Might be a good starting point.

1 https://www.oecd.org/about/document/ratification-oecd-conven...

[SahAssar]

> if you look at which countries have sanctioned Russia during the recent war, it's almost entirely this group

I don't know how you define western europe, but the sanctioning countries includes basically all of europe besides Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovivina, Macedonia and Belarus (of course).

[Silverback_VII]

The alliance doesn't work for Europe. The original population in Western europe got irrevocably replaced by liberal politics. And now Europe is losing big with the Ukrainian conflict while being the main target in the case of a nuclear war.

The party winning is the Anglosphere. They have been doing well ever since keeping Europe dysfunctional.

[orwin]

The original population of europe wasn't "replaced" since the roman republic era, so i don't understand.

And i dislike the liberalist myth, but at least its a more functional and useful myth than the feodal, monarchist or fascist myth that seems to come back nowadays.

[avmich]

Wait till continental Europe get the new member, and European Slavyanosphere includes one of the most powerful parts of former Soviet empire.