The Doomsday Clock

[Eric the Green]

I don't know if it means doomsday or not, but in the wake of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union, along with many western dictators, in 1991 we thought we had entered a new world order of peace and democracy.

Now the list of nations that have fallen into abject chaos and deadly destruction is long.

Syria
Iraq
Afghanistan
Palestine/Israel
Libya
Greece
Turkey
Russia, and the former Soviet Republics in Asia
Ukraine
Pakistan
Thailand
The Phillippines
Yemen
North Korea
South Sudan
Mali
Chad
Zimbabwe
Kenya
Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia
Nigeria, Niger, etc.
Guinea, Liberia, etc.
The United States of America, including Puerto Rico/Virgin Islands
Brazil
Haiti
Venezuela
Vanuatu
Kiribati, Tonga, Fiji, etc.
The European Union, beset with rising right-wing movements or regimes
Spain/Catalonia

Balanced against this mounting chaos, is progress in economic prosperity and a rising middle class in great nations in Asia like China and India, but China is still an authoritarian state. The Americas are still democratic and relatively peaceful, but with rising tensions, and breakdowns in places. The European Union is holding, but may be losing its edge and its liberality. The USA is still in question.