“Polarization permeates our world, whether in domestic politics or interstate relations,” S. Jaishankar, the Indian minister of external affairs, wrote in a recent book called “The India Way.” He also noted: “We have been conditioned to think of the post-1945 world as the norm and departures from it as deviations. In fact our own complex history underlines that the natural state of the world is multipolarity.”
Source: Davos Confronts a New World Order – DNyuz
Having finally studied world history this past year, I was struck by the seemingly normal state of human existence has been one of wars and treating other people badly. In the post World War II era, and especially after the end of the “Cold War” period, it seemed we were in a new era of less warfare and better conditions for all.
But the past 3 years have been one of chaos, incompetence government management, and new major wars. It’s as if all the bad stuff of the past is still the potential bad stuff of the present.
That seems to be what Davos “leadership” is saying too.
