Great Power Games: From Western Decline to Eastern Ascent
Vikram Sood · ★★★★★ · 478 pages · 2025
everything happening in the world
This book quite literally answered 90% of what is happening in the world right now. As hyperbolic as that sounds the West has a perception of everything with a left and right view. While Sood does have his own ideas, him being an outsider and using Western source material for his analysis gives a fresh perspective that is hard to come by in the West. Using this analytical framework he explains the decline of the West, elite capture, the rise of China, Christian and Islam, Ukraine and Russia, and more.
Highly recommend reading for deep understanding of current events and how we got here.