I'm not as sanguine as you. We are witnessing the breakdown of effective governing in Western democracies, in part triggered by active intervention by Russia, b

I'm not as sanguine as you. We are witnessing the breakdown of effective governing in Western democracies, in part triggered by active intervention by Russia, both in the UK in the case of Brexit and in the US with the Trump election. And in both cases the democratic system is now in complete disarray, with the U.K. government so far unable to stop devastating losses to their economy with politicians either grandstanding or walking off the stage. And in the US you have an individual who despises any form of fact-based consensus building in favour of deciding the literal fate of the world based on his (granted bigly substantial) gut. Literally one person decides to pull the US out of the Paris accord, starts a trade war at the worst possible economic time, pulls military support out of Syria over the consensus of military leadership, and shuts down the US government for good measure. And in both cases members of Congress and parliament are debilitated by infantile infighting and power grabbing from doing anything about it. Combine a minor slow-down of the world economy with that powder kegg and the world could absolutely look completely different from today in a few years time.