Re: India. It turns out the US has a pretty good system. Nations that might compete also tend to have a similarish system (India's more protectionist, but that'

Re: India. It turns out the US has a pretty good system. Nations that might compete also tend to have a similarish system (India's more protectionist, but that'll probably change as they get richer). But if you have a similar system, you'll be friendly with the US. Because being friendly with the US means making more money. We don't have things like the sino-soviet split because our only ideology is nominally capitalism but really making money (at least for elites). That is to say, even if we didn't have the cold war, due to their systems we couldn't really make money in the Eastern bloc anyway. So the cold war made sense. But we're also perfectly fine with India because everyone's making their money, why be mad?