Shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Francis Fukuyama wrote a widely popular book, The End of History and the Last Man, proclaiming that history is linear, and evolutionary, and that humanity has reached “not just … the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: That is, the end-point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.”
We would love to have believed that man has evolved to his highest state, and that history is evolutionary and linear, leading man to truly understand and appreciate the magnificent gift of the liberal world order, and embrace it with the United States standing at its helm. However, with 150,000 troops along the border of Ukraine, it is unfortunately and conspicuously clear that history is not linear.
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