As someone who grew up in the 1980s and 90s in North America, I have to say I'm blessed to have had an ultra-stable local geopolitical environment. It gave us t

As someone who grew up in the 1980s and 90s in North America, I have to say I'm blessed to have had an ultra-stable local geopolitical environment. It gave us the opportunity to really focus on raising the level of social awareness and fixing long-standing issues with equality on many levels. The question of whether things over-corrected is obviously a hot topic but we cannot ignore how a period of effectively 30 years of local peace improved the overall progressive maturity of our western society. It might also be an open question as to whether we exported our problems, or took advantage of other, poorer countries as stepping stones to get where we are. I won't argue that the western world didn't make the world worse in other places (and the debt we owe to those places because of it). I don't suppose I have a conclusion, other than "things are complicated" and the hope that "we" (as in humanity) can improve things for people around the world. I also hope that losses in this terrible war ends up with Russia on the path to modernization and a brighter future. It might take a long time for them to get there, but this could be the first step in rebuilding -- akin to Germany's walloping in the 40s.