The specific terror of multipolarity, for those who grew up inside unipolarity, is not economic. It's existential. If America is not the center, what is it? If the dollar is not the reserve currency, what does that mean about the country that issued it? If other models of development exist and function, what does that say about the universal inevitability of the American one? These are not small questions for a population whose entire identity was built on the assumption that American primacy was the natural state of a correctly ordered world. The world reordering itself is experienced, from inside that assumption, as the world breaking. But the world is not breaking. The world is, for the first time in a long time, becoming more of what it actually is. Which is: not organized around any single center. Which is: billions of people with their own answers to questions America assumed it had solved.