I thought we of the western world were doing reasonably well when compared with our performance in the past before WWI and II the western nations of the wold were constantly at war over one thing or another world war 1 and 2 seems a bit misleading as the world has been at war constantly for 100s of years. However since the so called WWll none of the major western powers have been at war and the wars that have occurred were small and brief admittedly western involvement in these wars did have a motive that was undoubtedly designed to rob their taxpayers. however the future where these altercations become a thing of the past is foreseeable. it is getting harder to fool nearly all of the people most of the time.