Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the world faced the most dangerous decade since World War Two as Western elites scrambled to prevent the

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the world faced the most dangerous decade since World War Two as Western elites scrambled to prevent the inevitable crumbling of the global dominance of the United States and its allies...The historical period of the West's undivided dominance over world affairs is coming to an end Says who? There is nothing inevitable about it. The evidence is in that a more free and a open society allows people to express their creativity and inventiveness, then share their discoveries with each other, compounding the invention. China is a closed society by comparison to the West. The CCP is friction and drag that will mean China will keep lagging as the West capitalizes on new technologies like artificial intelligence. Who knows what force multiplier that will turn out to be?