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This is always my thought when I hear that kind of response too. "Replace US hegemony" great. With what? China? Russia? India? Iran? Maybe the EU would be better, but I don't see an EU hegemony replacing US hegemony successfully any time soon. I feel like in a lot of ways the US dominated world order is/was a lesser of 2+ evils... We might be about to find out what the greater ones are :/
The thing about the EU is it doesn't want to be a hegemony power like the US was, at least not when it includes military. Those who want are Russia (openly) and China (through the backdoors). Don't know enough about India.
Even with the current push for more military, the maximum I see from the EU is securing its most important trade routes and otherwise project soft power through economical influence.
Based on what metric, exactly? Vibes? White supremacy?
When the Americans came to put up a base in my country, we didn't have to hide our women like when the Soviets did. They also let us travel and usually don't shoot our prime minister.
This may come as a shock to you, but the USSR hasn't existed in a quarter century.
And that's good, but the Russians sure try to pretend otherwise.
It must be hard for you, trying to get through life without being able to follow even basic chains of thought
Social mobility.
So vibes.
Also, even if it was true that the USA had better social mobility, that doesn't make it the lesser evil for dominating the rest of the world, now does it?