My mom told me a joke today:
At the beginning of the 19th century in Russia we taught French – we defeated Napoleon.
At the beginning of the 20th, the German became popular - they defeated Hitler.
Everyone is passionate about English now. We never had that choice.

YYY: Maybe the opposite?
The country is becoming an international leader – the whole world is learning their language – they decide that they will be able to invade this Russian – they are invading – the whole world is beginning to learn another language.
No is?