realistically? nothing will change. they will just switch the big bad status to china. why? china doesn't have any goals? no one cares. as long as there is an enemy and a threat, it allows governments to push for more funds, that get successfully taken into a pocket and tyrrany against their own for the sake of "defence" (power for their own). this is also why russia dying doesn't benefit the west. they would have to stop the current agenda, readjust and reprogramm people to hate china to the same extent.
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