Israel as ruthless and vicious as it is, it still can't subdue a much larger population. The main advantage it has other than US-sourced weaponry is that Southwest Asia is divided among itself.
Europe is aging and deindustrializing and I don't see how this can be reversed in less than a generation.
Other than it is a plausible scenario but also a sign of retreat for the US that it has limited itself to the Americas.
The Sahel alone can provide enough electricity from solar to power the entire Earth.
I didn't do the math and I didn't verify it, but I did read it somewhere, and the original source said Libya which isn't a Sahel country but I assume it is true for the Sahel as well.
Racism, it is as simple as that. I should still read the article and I will.
Edit:
Just read the article. Many good points and good quotes, nothing that I disagree with. Here are a few key points:
But over the past two decades, wages in China have increased quite dramatically. Around 2005, the manufacturing labour cost per hour in China was lower than in India, less than $1 per hour. In the years since, China’s hourly labour costs have increased to more than $8 per hour, while India’s are now only about $2 per hour. Indeed, wages in China are now higher than in every other developing country in Asia. This is a major, historical development.
Labour cost isn't the only reason else they would have moved to India. China has a skill and infrastructure advantage that can't be replicated easily even as the cost of labour steadily goes up.
Ironically, Western governments sometimes justify their opposition to China on the grounds that China’s exports are too cheap. It is often claimed that China “cheats” in international trade, by artificially suppressing the exchange rate for its currency, the renminbi. The problem with this argument, however, is that China abandoned this policy around a decade ago. As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) economist Jose Antonio Ocampo noted in 2017, “In recent years, China has rather been making efforts to avoid a depreciation of the renminbi, sacrificing a large amount of reserves. This may imply that, if anything, this currency is now overvalued.” China did eventually permit a devaluation in 2019, when tariffs imposed by the administration of US President Donald Trump increased pressure on the renminbi. But this was a normal response to a change in market conditions, not an attempt to suppress the renminbi below its market rate.
They didn't care much when Huawei made budget phones but freaked out when they started making premium phones.
The real reason for Western warmongering is because China is achieving sovereign development and this is undermining the imperial arrangement on which Western capital accumulation depends. The West will not let global economic power slip from its hands so easily.
China shows that Western Civilization, i.e. politics, culture, economics and systems, aren't the only option. Westerners can't handle that.
So it confirms the racism point. They can't accept that China competes with them in making premium products, that the Chinese have a high quality of living and that China didn't have to adopt Westernism the same way Japan or South Korea did.
There is no such thing as Arab-Israeli or Israeli-Arab. They are Palestinians who survived the 1948 Nakba and weren't expelled. Israel tries to erase Palestinian identity by pretending Palestinians are generic Arabs from elsewhere. Palestinians with Israeli citizenship do go through the Israeli education system and some do buy into the Zionist narrative but they are a very small minority.
I don't believe that the Arabic script is hard to learn. I was able to read pretty much anything written in Arabic by second grade. The West Bank and the Gaza Strip had higher literacy than some Western nations despite the occupation and lack of resources.
I can't find any locally. That's why I'm holding off until a purchase becomes absolutely necessary, and hoping that Huawei does release HarmonyOS here -so far they released it on tablets only.
More science and technology research is happening outside of the US, specifically in China.
Israel has never been more unhinged and honest about its intentions. In the past they would deny the Nakba, now they openly call for a Second Nakba. In the past they would claim that all they want is to live in peace and to defend themselves from threats, now they are openly threatening Qatar and Egypt.
The US and Israel are acting violently and irrationally -regardless of party- because they know they are running out of time.
Of course none of this make the genocide in Gaza anymore bearable, and it is depressing that the world is watching and no one is trying to stop it. But the system -rule based order- that allows it is being weakened even if at a slower pace than we would like.
There are weak links in this:
Other than it is a plausible scenario but also a sign of retreat for the US that it has limited itself to the Americas.