It wasn’t meant to be like this. The end of the Cold War was supposed to usher in an era of peace and prosperity, liberalism had beaten tyranny and the shadows thrown by the two World Wars would disappear in the radiant sunlight of liberal democracy.
Instead, there’s a darkness as authoritarianism again stalks parts of the globe challenging the idea that liberal democracy is the best method to govern complex societies. In the absence of the USA and Russia trying to play “World Policeman” various nations/factions seek to police their own neighborhood.
