When the Soviet bloc, the former USSR, disintegrated in 1991, it was a turning point for the world, not only because communism fell, but globalization took a giant leap as Russia, and all the satellite states formerly part of the Soviet bloc, now entered into free trade on the global market. Then there was China, which during 1990s shifted from strict adherence to Maoist communism and adopted the party-state capitalist platform, essentially combining global market commerciali

History is testimony to the fact that the wrong people, in positions of political power, cause havoc. We are seeing the repeating cycle today with Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu and others, a handful of men actively working to destroy the work that decades of good leaders put in place to move the world closer to global unification. If we accept that this cycle of dictatorial leaders is “just the way it is”, then of course that complacency and apathy will mak