i disagree, U.S. is plenty capable, third most populous country, vast resources, its political system needs a purge . i would love to see actual competition between China, Russia and the U.S. it would be the best for the Global South but instead we have the U.S. and the west strangling the Global south through its institutions like the IMF.

USSR helped Global South countries tremendously, something which worried the US and forced it to provide economic aid to its own puppets.