This follow-up to The Age of Predators focuses on the China-America-Russia triumvirate, providing essential keys for understanding the world to come.

The pandemic has not only accelerated the predatory tendencies of the major powers, but also aggravated fractures between peoples and states, highlighting internal weaknesses specific to Europe.
Tensions between China and America have been exacerbated, independent of the outcome of an American election. Unlike the binary order of the Cold War, a Sino-American confrontation would bring no stability. At this point, a Thucydides Trap seems less likely than a disorder comparable to that of the early 1930s.
Means of technological warfare, from everyday cyberattacks to methods for weakening nuclear deterrence, contribute significantly to the general instability.