I want there to be a multi-polar world. But three poles will always be two versus one. Any boardgamer knows five, seven or nine are the optimal number of players(diplomacy, supremacy, civilization).
I applauded Rose and SK for trying to have a third sphere. And I don't blame them for tying up with the other loser sphere to take down the top dog. In a 3 sphere world, its always 1 vs 2 and 3.
But three isn't enough spheres. I wish the paperless sphere would get a little larger. Maybe SK could join that one with Guardian, it'd be a nice little sphere, plus a traditional grouping of SK-G-TeST. Then we could try to roll VE and fail and TeST could switch sides. Ok, maybe that didn't work out so well last time.