Can't thank you enough for your insights. What is takes to find people like you (my pathway was Sachs to Mearscheimer to Alexander to you) is a story in itself. Now I can't watch or read MSM without. . .well, you know. Bring on the multipolar world, down with the dominant U.S. dollar. End the genocide in Gaza. Stop the bleeding in Ukraine. Dismantle NATO. And THEN, tackle the species-threatening problems faced by all mankind beginning with climate change by recognizing that capitalism as practice in the West is the enemy of any solution to any problem that can't be monetized. Bring back governance that is not controlled by the private sector. Or maybe hand off governance to AI, which lacks the emotions that doom honest progress toward equity and sustainability and sabotage any sort of impartial topdown regulation of the elite class.