> Kinda like during the cold war you were on one team or another, no trying to play multiple sides. Tangential to your comment, but in fact there was another p

> Kinda like during the cold war you were on one team or another, no trying to play multiple sides. Tangential to your comment, but in fact there was another path, spearheaded by, among others, India. It's where we get the term "third world", which became shorthand for "developing" because basically no developed countries joined this "third world" movement ("first world" being the so-called West, "second" being the Soviets).