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Niall Ferguson has argued that the era of prosperity from 1945 to 2001 wasn't due to globalism but the Pax Americana and after 2001, the Pax Americana crumbled. If the general idea governing the "free world" since 1945 was supposed to be "I'd like to buy the world a coke" but was in actuality "Americaland uber alles" then the coke-buyers have been at a serious disadvantage ever since we decided South Asian refugees spilling all over Europe was A-OK with us. That's going to cause some painful realignment for everybody. Which, in turn, causes everyone to go "let's try something new!" without recognizing that the guys in position to try something new are the ones who were ahead before but hadn't bothered to play politics yet.