Australia is also seeking a closer alliance with EU and Canada. The world is moving on to a post Us-hegemony era.

All it took was Trump & Republicans

The world was already moving on from US hegemony. China is already a super power, other economies are growing, and the west in general (i.e. all the countries mentioned here) are a shrinking proportion of the world economy (and population, or military strength).

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N_Lens an hour ago | parent [-]

Not if we kick off WW3 as a last ditch attempt to hold on to the old order ;)

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9dev 40 minutes ago | parent [-]

You jest, but if you've ever seen a wounded animal fighting like mad for survival, I wouldn't be so confident that won't be the exact same things that's going to happen.

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desterothx 17 minutes ago | parent [-]

You don't have to look into the animal kingdom, history works too. No ruling empire has fallen silently and without conflict. Changing the world order always included an aggressive transfer of power

	▲	actionfromafar a minute ago \| parent [-]
		The British Empire dismantling wasn't exactly peaceful, but it could have been much worse. Next to India, everything else becomes a rounding error.

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drstewart 26 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Meanwhile Poland's share of trade with China is growing over that with Germany: https://notesfrompoland.com/2026/09/16/china-overtakes-germa...

The pivot away from Germany / France is starting and will not stop.

All it took was Merkel and sucking up to Russia.