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Which are the two sides now?
Peter.
The US, while at the center of much of the current shenanigans, could not even exist and Russia and China would still be making their plays for position with demonstrations of neutron weapons, anti-satellite weapons, threatening Taiwan, threatening Europe (via Kalingrad), etc.
The game goes on regardless. The rest of the world is not lily white pure innocent peaceniks. So if there was not a USA to rally against, they would rally against one another. This is all about jockeying for position.
If the US collapses economically and does a 1990s Russia, do you think that the other powers of the world will magically shake hands and get along? Communist China and Communist Russia couldn't get along when they both hated the US. And there are far more (and far older) sets of antagonists spread around the globe, even if the USA vanished tomorrow.
Anyway, I suppose I should have said "many sides" because there are dozens of players in this, each with distinct and not necessarily cooperative goals.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Dr. Albert Bartlett
Into the Grey Zone