In Opinion | 7 Things I Used to Believe—Until Putin and Trump Proved Me Wrong ✍️ RBReich
I expected globalization would blur borders, create economic interdependence among nations and regions and extend a modern consumer and artistic culture worldwide.Nations can no longer control what their citizens know.
Wrong again. Trump filled the media with lies, as has Putin. Putin has also cut off Russian citizens from the truth about what's occurring in Ukraine.I thought that in the"new economy," land was becoming less valuable than technological knowhow and innovation. Competition among nations would therefore be over the development of cutting-edge inventions.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend their bilateral meeting at the G20 Osaka Summit 2019, in Osaka, Japan, June,28,2019. Vladimir Putin has arrived to Japan to partcipate the G20 Osaka Summit and to meet U.S.President Donald Trump.Major nuclear powers will never risk war against each other because of the certainty of"mutually assured destruction."I fear I was wrong. Putin is now resorting to dangerous nuclear brinksmanship.
Sure, petty dictatorships would remain in some retrograde regions of the world. But modernity came with democracy, and democracy with modernity.Yet Ukrainians are showing something else: that Trump's and Putin's efforts to turn back the clock on the 21st century can only be addressed with a democracy powerful enough to counteract autocrats like them.
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