ANN CROTTY: Back to the bad old Cold War days
Liberal democrats believed they were on a roll, but now the West faces a long, hard winter
01 September 2022 - 05:00
It wasn’t just political historian Francis Fukuyama who miscalculated the inevitability of liberal democracy, and the market economy, prevailing. It’s now apparent that powerful players in the US and Germany miscalculated on a horrendous scale.
Which is why, after almost 50 years of hubristic liberal democrats believing they could transform authoritarian countries and shape the global political order to their form, we have ended up in a terrifying cul-de-sac...
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