This is not the time to bring up our past faults, everyone. I’m from Poland, a country battered by the Soviets (and before that by the Russian Tsars) to the point that between one and two million of us, mostly innocent civilians, were tortured, starved, and killed or died in the Gulag–my dad was one of them miraculously, he survived to tell about it. Hi Don, you have written a GREAT article, a call to arms to preserve our and this world’s freedoms. Step three is to disarm existing nuclear states and find a way to end the growing conventional wisdom that lesser states must have nuclear weapons to fend for themselves. Is world governance on the horizon? Think about it. The world of the 21 st century can no longer function as a collection of nation states. Step two is to challenge the entire construct of the nation-state. A new Europe must be forged with bars that restrain ethnonationalism and its failed siren call to cleanse peoples and countries of a different stripe. The European Project is also a relic of the past. The United Nations is no longer what it proclaims to be-peace loving countries capable of policing themselves.
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Step one is to build new international organizations that can truly make a difference when the powerful raise their ugly heads. Has the international jungle in which the powerful prey on the weak returned? Does the Russian invasion of Ukraine mark the demise of the liberal rule-based world order? If so, is there an alternative world order that will tame the jungle with the promise and hope that a better future awaits? What lies beyond?įutures prophets are notoriously wrong but here goes. Eight years later, President Putin orders a “special military incursion” into Ukraine claiming that Ukraine has never been a sovereign state but has historic ties to Mother Russia. World leaders protest and slap Putin on the wrists. The Cold War decades eventually gave way to a unipolar world when the Soviet Union imploded in 1989.įast forward to 2014-Russian President Vladimir Putin plants the Russian flag in the Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and pronounces the territory belonging to Russia. Alas, no sooner had the promise of a new future arrived then it ran headlong into a struggle for ideological dominance between communist dictators and market democracies. Institution building followed with the creation of the United Nations, the withering of colonial powers, and the world policing responsibilities of the United States, including the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949.
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The start point is the legacy of two world wars and a determination by the leaders of the free world to never forget the dreadful price in lives lost and prosperities stunted. So, how did we get to this awful moment and what can we do to navigate a future of order, respect for human rights, and prosperity of soul and self? The answer to the first part of this question is not straightforward but fully understandable.
Yes, democracies worldwide are standing at the precipice of a future where humankind can flourish or wither.
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