I wouldn't consider it prophetic, although it was a reasonable prediction of what could occur after a global war is fought where the main actors are totalitaria

I wouldn't consider it prophetic, although it was a reasonable prediction of what could occur after a global war is fought where the main actors are totalitarian regimes and imperialists. It could have been applied within the context of WWII or the Cold War. Back in 1949 when the book was published, it wasn't a far-fetched notion to assume that the world would essentially be divided between conflicting forces by the 1980s. However, in reality, the last African country under colonial rule gained its independence by 1980, and the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. So, looking back, it wasn't prophetic but still stands as a hell of a cautionary tale. There is always the looming danger of going back to this clusterfudge of a state of affairs again (c.f. Fourth Political Theory or Duginism and how readily the so-called "Atlantist" opponents in the far-right embraced this terrible ideology).