Brzezinski was right. Power abhors a vacuum. The 1930s proved it. When it's bad vs worse, as on June 23, 1941, I'll take bad. Read Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi on the difference between Nazism and Communism as to why.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/19/robert-kagan-america-trap-world-war-hitler-japan/

History's menu doesn't offer none of the above.

After the American empire exhausts itself, I'll be quite happy to see the EU+Japan+South Korea+the UK+Australia+New Zealand+Taiwan+Norway+ Canada replace it.

But Immanuel Wallerstein tells you don't hold your breath waiting for that moment. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World-systems_theory)