Eduard Rubin

  Part 1: The "End of History" Hangover If you still have a bottle of champagne saved in your china cabinet to one day toast the free world's great victory over communism in 1991—pour it down the toilet. It turned to vinegar a long time ago, just as toxic as the illusions of Washington analysts who spent decades jerking off to charts of global democratization. I have a highly uncomfortable spoiler for you, the kind that usually gives liberal democracy zealots a nervous tic: The US lost the Cold War. What we mistook for a deafening triumph and Fukuyama's "end of history" for thirty years was the greatest geopolitical hallucination ever recorded. We stood on the pedestal, draped in medals, while the enemy quietly hauled the furniture out of our house and bought off the judges. What we are facing today is not a sudden crisis. It’s the logical metastasis of a tumor the West decided to treat with a band-aid and IMF loans. Trump and his ruthless MAGA sledgehammer...