@sparkledragon5@chaosfem.tw @AnarchoNinaWrites General agreement but I would add I don't think the US is trying to soften anything.
I think the US is trying to hold onto power (like most any other) and this *this* is how they are doing it. The multi polar world was always going to win (because that is reality) but now it is eating the US lunch, the US power structure TM can't take it and this is their death throws trying to keep a thing they never had.