Until the EU creates sufficient hard power to match its soft power, the last three men left standing in the empire game are the Russia-led Axis of Extermination (Russia, Iran, North Korea, Hamas, Hizbullah), Communist mafia governed China and the USA. As on June 23, 1941, none of the above isn't on the menu. As is typical in human history, its only bad vs worse on the menu. Get over it.

I'll take the rule of law upstart maritime empires of the West created by the Dutch, copied by the English and the Americans who copied the copy over the legacy land-based autocratic empires of Russia and China anytime. If you can't tell the difference, you've inherited the CPUSA's idiocy in the August 23, 1939 to June 22, 1941 slogan "don't fight the imperialist war!"