I've been told countless times in a matter-of-fact tone that if the US didn't rule the world with unipolar hegemony then Beijing or Moscow would, but I've never once had someone back this claim up with a solid argument. There's simply no evidence that it's true. https://twitter.com/amconmag/status/1253750553810595840

The only thing we know would change if the US didn't rule the world is US-centralized power structures would lose the ability to sanction disobedient nations into oblivion and gin up support for coalition invasions. Everything else is just baseless conjecture assumed to be true.

From what I can tell the belief that China wants to rule the world is premised on nothing other than projection of western evangelical and colonialist values upon a civilization that has never held those values. We assume they want what we want, and there's no evidence they do.

Exactly. "Oh noes if we didn't rule the planet with an iron fist, we might have to be nice to other countries!" https://twitter.com/ben_digeidfran/status/1253814116449497088?s=20