> Your choices are America, China, or Russia. That's it.

Don't sleep on the EU. They are largest economic/political entity in the world. Not america, not china, not russia. The EU represents the world's largest market, has a larger population than the US, larger defense budget than china, currency that could possibly replace the dollar one day and a legacy/network of former colonial possessions all over the world.

The problem for EU is they haven't forged a nation like what US or India has done in spite of their cultural diversity. They're still essential squabbling little countries. How horrifically the south European countries were treated during the financial crisis instead of the EU pulling together just demonstrates how bad the situation is. Unless it federalizes, it will have little or no political impact.

This assumes the continuity of EU as a union. I would not really count on it.

>"The world will have a master. The question is, who do you want the master to be?"

I prefer not to have a single master but a multi-polar world where countries learn to use a diplomacy and do things for a mutual benefit rather than submit to the biggest dick on a street. And I think this is where the world is going.

We had several hundred years of a multipolar world when Europe ran the show. It was know for diplomacy, yes, but not for peace.

Well we have progressed since then a little, don't you think? What used to be solved by force is now solved by diplomacy more often. And large scale wars are less likely because of nukes. Otherwise we are going to a dictatorship on international scale. Fuck that

>Well we have progressed since then a little, don't you think? What used to be solved by force is now solved by diplomacy more often.

That transition happened at basically the precise point the world transitioned from a multipolar situation to a bipolar one.

I'm not saying bipolarity brought peace, but there's hardly any evidence that we've gotten any better at multipolar situations.

I'll settle for a few major powers.

> The world will have a master. The question is, who do you want the master to be?

$ su

My wish-list: EU, PRC, USA, Russia - in that order. The US has had its chance.

My wish - all of them and few more so that no one gets funny ideas about ruling the world.