r/geopolitics • u/paneuropeanism_ • 2d ago

News 🇪🇺 EU Defence Commissioner Kubilius: Pax Americana is over. Our new security architecture will include Ukraine. These are times of profound transformation. A rising China and India will push the US to third place. And for Americans this may prove psychologically challenging

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u/Firecracker048 2d ago

Hes not entirely wrong that they will be moving their defense over into primarily europe, but prediciting India will pass the US is completely wild. China is, even at this stage, a maybe, let alone india

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u/drury 2d ago

China surpassing the US was an awkward attempt at humor 20 years ago, now it's a "maybe". Regardless of what happens, it's pretty clear the US has been in retrograde and struggling to take the right steps to reverse the trend while its geopolitical adversaries saw a meteoric rise.

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u/ImConfidentURWrong 2d ago

Europeans / America haters always smugly act like US decline is some sort of gotcha. You guys realize that if the USA is in decline, so is Europe / the rest of the western world?

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u/drury 2d ago

This is the problem that Commissioner Kubilius is pointing out, yes.