I see your response to my previous message, great. Don’t take my criticism harshly, what follows is just for discussion not disparagement.

A phrase in the last paragraph “The world’s mission is to preclude great-power competition,” leaves me a little bemused. Anthropomorphizing the world is problematic. The world does not have a mission. The human’s might have a mission but it surpasses or exceeds or extends beyond precluding a great-power competition. Great-power competition is not by definition evil, but resulting deaths and environmental destruction are evil. What if we competed to see who could repair the environment the fastest?

TEK