> I don't find that convincing, given that the main claimants to this "multipolar world" are totalitarian dictatorships. If the USA is dictating issues outside

> I don't find that convincing, given that the main claimants to this "multipolar world" are totalitarian dictatorships. If the USA is dictating issues outside its borders, and the affected people have no vote in US politics, then to them, this isn't conceptually different from being ruled by a dictatorship at all.