I think the reality of the situation is that the 'consensus reality' as agreed up in the west wasn't decided upon by a bunch of intellectuals in ivory towers carefully considering available facts and using logic to derive universal truths. It was decided in a paroxysm of violence that engulfed the entire world and led to the deaths of millions of people, and left us on the brink of nuclear annihilation.
The liberal world order that Putin and Trump are in the middle of tearing apart was not stable, and now we're in a period like the 1840s or the interwar period where all of the questions that everyone had thought had been settled no longer seem as though they are, and there's really nobody left alive who remembers the cost of solving problems like this with bullets and bombs. So we're going to do it again.
The liberal world order that Putin and Trump are in the middle of tearing apart was not stable, and now we're in a period like the 1840s or the interwar period where all of the questions that everyone had thought had been settled no longer seem as though they are, and there's really nobody left alive who remembers the cost of solving problems like this with bullets and bombs. So we're going to do it again.
It's going to be a rough few years coming up.