The on-going global chess game is serious business. So far, the game has kept the world out of World War 3. The last time these three countries were allies was during World War 2. Today, you can say that Russia and China are one man totalitarian regimes. China is working the most at present to supplant the USA as the world’s leading power Russia is trying to maintain itself as an equal partner with the USA and China. Each of these 3 countries have cooperated with each other and competed against each other based on sphere’s of influence, economic considerations, and engaging in military one-upmanship. In this contest, Russia is the loser as their tiny economy struggles to keep up its military threat while supporting a decent lifestyle for it’s citizens. Right now, in the long run, the main economic and military threat to the USA is China. The EU are still where they have always been, hiding under the US skirt.
Saying that “The main economic problems the world keeps having are related to the failure and breakdown of global socialism” is not supported by any facts known to me. Population growth, water supplies, crazy (and corrupt) dictators, and the economic and military competition between the USA, China, Russia and the EU are causes of the economic problems of the world. I can sum it up as “Greed and Stupidity”.