

As an American… Knowing our own history… Our government’s predilection to installing “friendly” dictators in foreign countries to get what’s best for the USA and fuck what’s best for that country’s citizens…
This isn’t the worst thing that could happen to the world, the real problem is the power vacuum being replaced by an even more unsavory country pulling international strings. We can only hope Europe comes out on top here.
We can indeed hope for a multilateral system, but both Russia and China are in positions to potentially exploit the power vacuum. I actually have more faith in China being the more reasonable and safe choice between the two, but they have just as many questionable things their government does as the US does, sadly.
The sad truth is that when there is a power vacuum, other positions of power end up vying for control of the now empty position of power.