Yeah, Russia France and China are trying to rebuild empire dreams, while Europe, India and Africa are trying to create federations and prevent empires that are our enemies.
Interestingly both france and russia see the USA as an empire and are acting as if we aren’t going to break up into a federation.
My analysis of history, is that everyone tries to act on past fantasies 30 years (one generation) too early, when the premise of their fantasy would be gone by then.
The USA is going to devolve into a federation again or it will cease to exist.