UKR-RUS conflict reveals 4 areas of wishful thinking...
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Wishful thinking 1: "end of history" is here. Liberal Democracy is here. Everyone will converge there. Wrong. An open, free society needs to be actively defended, not taken for granted.
Wishful thinking 2: Liberal Democracy is Compatible with Anti-Regulatory Short-Term-istic Capitalism - no, its not. We created societies with "races to bottoms" - traded deep thinking for shallows, unable to invest in long-term.
Wishful thinking 3: The Energy Transition Can Wait - No, we needed to do everything 20 years ago. Now we have to accelerate everything - solar, wind, even nuclear, and definitely energy storage, and eventually negative emissions. Now fossil fuel energy access is a weapon.
Wishful Thinking 4: Capitalism and Trade Will Knit Us Together Peacefully - wrong. No "trade peace" theory. In fact, supply chains also weaponi-zable. Prepare for more self-sufficient world, and hyper-diversify.
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