Month: January 2025

In a world increasingly dominated by disinformation, a rising threat of unthinkable thermonuclear war, conflict piled upon conflict, and loss of key societal freedoms, is it even possible to think of thoughts and expectations for peace? As Americans withdraw from a stabilizing global benefactor into self-serving protectionism, anxieties and fears soar across the planet.

In central Europe, screeching missiles shatter infrastructure and tranquility and innocents suffer brutally. In the Middle East, destructive military rockets crisscross multiple countries, as cell phones explode in the hands of militants, triggering panic and elevating already-high misery. A very real threat of superpower conflict smolders in the 81-mile-wide strait between mainline China and Taiwan, the latter a hyper-critical global economic linchpin.

As a new Presidential administration appears to foment chaos, upending order in the name of progress, Foreign Affairs magazine leads with coverage detailing “The Strange Triumph of a Broken America.”

What is the hope – at the least the short-term hope – of the world?

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