Despite the name, the World Without The West scenario seems less horrific than the others, or at least not as immediately so.
Hell, I’m a fan of all four.
The world without the west is already going to happen, so why not?
>>117196something tells me it's going to be a combination of the World Without the West and the Politics is Not Always Local ones, but I like both of those as it gives us a chance to take back the political reigns in the chaos and also may put the US back in a position to be more relaxed about wars and go back to an isolationist stance.
I support the multipolar world. I'm sick of the U.S. policing the world.
Politics is not always local.
>>117196All scenarios are false and characterized.
World without west cannot exist because of the shear amount of natural resources the west has and has devolved compared to the underdeveloped world in which even if China was to exploit, which they can't since they do no have naval supremacy and are in no position to beat the west in soft power for, they would have to deal with the repercussion of imperialism and black nationalist movements or an outright war with Russia. So cannot exist.
Brics bust-up goes against game theory. The US and Iran are already in a hostile game. Russia and India could never fully cooperate in a non zero sum game.
October surprise has been mischaracterized to a point where its not even valid.
And Politics is not always local mischaracterizes how the age of the internet effects politics due to social media. The internet allows for a bit more group identification and the breaking of a common narrative but it does not account for ecochambers and filterbubles that keep personalities limmited to regions. When was the last time anyone here went on the itallian election thread? How often did we lurk on /britpol/ during their election cycle? Maybe once or twice at best but we tend to stay away from things that we don't consider to be affecting us.
But overall we will not cooperate on a global scale and things are not and either or on state dominated since certain states exert more control and other relly more on nonstate actors. So somewhere between state dominated and non state dominated with low global cooperation. I disagree with the terms they use and what they they say they will look like since I believe identarianism will play a big role regardless and that this will straighten the nation state.
I noticed this is just the ideology quadrangle with right/left swapped.
Aligned = Authoritarianism
Fragmented = Libertarianism
State Dominated = Right
Non-state = Left
>>117196See, if corporations didn't have lobbying and bribery in the scales that they do, the fourth one wouldn't exist. In other words, corporatism is not capitalism.