A united EU, for real and not of small states but the major EU powers, France the seventh world power, Germany a big economic power, Italy the third EU manufacturing power, actually the base of much of Germany and France tech together, Spain and Portugal still very important view their links to South America. For Russia means having a nascent new old global power no one can stop. Remember: until WWI big western European powers was the world leading superpowers. Russia back then was a fragile empire and USA a marginal and local-only power like China.

We still have the most advanced tech and the biggest hi quality industrial complex both USA and China can't really rival except on scale.