Jack of Harts

The surviving European nations and American formed the Western Alliance during the final confrontations with China and the Singapore Collective. With the end of the Rogue AIs and the global war they tried to engineer, the Western Alliance had no wish to fight the other powers if they could avoid it, and instead wished to focus on rebuilding themselves. It was an alliance of equals, even if some were more equal than others, and the Alliance poured its resources first into dragging everyone out of the ashes and into a newer and better future. That future would of course include space and beyond, as everyone knew that if they could no longer afford to fight their enemies on Earth, space would be the future of that race.