The US margin on economic power isn't all that great, by GDP/PPP it's a long way behind China. Though from the POV of economic coercion, the question is probab

The US margin on economic power isn't all that great, by GDP/PPP it's a long way behind China. Though from the POV of economic coercion, the question is probably more like "what's the USA's import/export market like relative to all my markets including domestic?", which is going to vary wildly by industry. > Ally with China, Iran and Russia to fight the US? Replace Iran with the EU, and yes, some or all of them. > EU as much as they dislike the US, has a laundry list of urgent domestic issues like Russia, Urgent, but affordable. > no cheap energy, no tech industry, Energy isn't meaningfully worse than anyone else, lots of tech but it's mostly local rather than global in scale > ageing population, economic stagnation or even decline, Like everyone else, including the USA > collapsing welfare system News to me. Also: Wasn't the USA's supposed to collapsing since Obama took power? But also, not a unified welfare system over all member nations of the EU. > illegal immigration leading to a rise right wing extremism leading to crackdowns on freedom of speech and censorship. Is it, or is that a narrative? And specifically, is it doing this worse than the USA today?