"Nature red in tooth and claw".
During "the unipolar moment" (1991 - 2017) was the world a more peaceful place? Unchallenged, was the States the world's policeman? Was it successful (there was yugoslavia, iraq and 9/11)?
Anyway, my point is, there is a choice between "the call of the wild" or a police world. In the wild, it is about brutal and perpetual war for territory, food, mates, for dominance, it is about power.
Alternatively, we have rules, that everyone signs up to and agrees to abide by....but not if they can help it, and not if they feel their existence or their positionis threathened.
We have anarchy or one of two rules-based Orders - UN or American.
What can be done? Security Agreements backed by Balance-of-Power?
The first five or ten minutes are enough to understand what's underneath the laquer of civilisation.
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