Russia, China, and Iran are proving more and more to be toothless.
-Trump sends weapons to Taiwan, China goes like "We warn you. We will do this and this and that", and then they proceed to do absolutely nothing whatsoever.
-Trump strikes at Russia's nuclear triad, obliterating Tu-95s. Russia does absolutely nothing to demonstrate to the US that it's red lines are real.
-Trump strikes Iran and then promises a second strikes, and we know what Iran is going to do, a whole lot of nothing.
I think I have lost faith in the multipolar world. We are looking at multiple sides where one strikes anyone they want at will whenever, wherever, and however they want, while others watch like statues, then proceed to cry like bitches during UN events like "Waaaa waaaaa! We condemn this action and that action waaaaaaa!". Pathetic. Absolutely fucking pathetic.
The problem with the idea of multipolar world is a lot of countries started getting the idea they themselves are a pole and one doesn't have to do anything to be a pole, when there are only two poles, only one of them real right now and being a pole is something that can only be earned through hard power and physical force.
Israel's entire arsenal is foreign, while Iran tries to build everything themselves, Israel know its not a real power by itself and as such spends decades latching itself on the US, while Iran sees itself as an independent power and refuses to fully embrace being a client state to a real power. For what it's worth Iran did a respectable job by itself using their own weapons, but at end of the day they're not a pole while the US from whom Israel obtained all their weapons are.
Trump sold weapons to Taiwan, actual delivery is a whole other thing, while Chinese weapons have actually been destroying tens of thousands of NATO troops and equipment, including American, with FPV footage to show for each one, and the US don't even have the balls to admit it's happening let alone respond, one may say that's pretty toothless.
Russia knows it's not a pole anymore and started to fully embraced China since 2014, even US knows it can't survive without China and just accepted full Chinese supervision over industrial activity just so they can have at least a civilian industry. Iran spent the 2010s trying to cozy up to the west, and even afer moving close to China in recent years still won't embrace being a client state, despite the pressure on them being much higher than Russia.
At end of the day the world's natural state is unipolar, not multipolar. Even the US itself only gets to play as one because they're (reluntantly) willing to comply with Chinese rules, China lets them and US is more interested in Zionism than challening Chinese dominance, smaller powers just need to understand how the world works and put down their pride.