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by suraci 500 days ago
well, from the historical perspective, it's more easy(or equally hard) to achieve a peaceful multipolar world than a eternal unipolar world

i mean, all 'rule-based international order' died in history, the Holy Roman Empire, the First Empire of France, and the ancient Chinese empire died in every 300 years

even there is no China, even the empire doesn't implode, will africans and south americans be willing to mining for the west for all their lives? there will be Sankaras and Castros in every several decades, every hegemony has an end

or, american exceptionalism?

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Can you name a single period of peaceful multipolar world in situations where the Great Powers could actually reach one another militarily?

I mean, the fact that the Romans and the Chinese never clashed over future Kazakhstan is not a proof of a peaceful multipolar world. It is simply a corollary of the fact that neither empire was able to expand into the steppe.

so it's equally hard

and, i know you guys don't like it, but that's what communism aims for

it's an extremely glorious and great undertaking that has never been done by our predecessors