Fukuyama: This time the end of history has indeed come

He says that over the past decade, global politics has been shaped by powerful states whose leaders have not been restricted by law or constitution, meaning Russia and China. These two countries show they are better able to solve any problems compared to liberal democracies that are slower and this wave has now spread.

This year, however, it has become evident that two key weaknesses exist at the core of these powerful states.

Fukuyama says there are two such key weaknesses: First, the concentration of power in the hands of a single leader that almost guarantees low quality in decision making, and in time it produces disastrous consequences. The second, according to him, is the lack of public discussion and debate in powerful states, meaning that support for the leader is shallow and can be eroded within a moment.

On the other hand, Fukuyama says liberal democracies have faced all crises throughout history and people turn to that concept because no one wants to live under dictatorship. Millions of people leaving poor and corrupt countries seek better lives, not in Russia, China, or Iran, but in the liberal and democratic West.

According to Fuquiama, the weaknesses of the powerful “ ” were reflected quite well in Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin, makes his own decisions -- even the Soviet Union, he says, had a political office in which a party agent should control these ideas.

Putin can be seen sitting alone at the end of a long table with his defence and foreign ministers, fearing Covid-19, so, isolated, he had no idea how powerful the identity of the Ukrainian nation had become in recent years or how powerful the resistance would have been to the invasion of Ukraine. Similarly, he knew nothing about how deep corruption was and incompetence in his army, how weak his modern weapons he had developed, or how poorly trained his commanding staff was.

Fukuyama points out that all talk of support for Putin was discovered when he ordered a partial mobilization, and when all those who were being selected began to leave Russia.

Russia has now become a global object of ridicule and will suffer from this, Fukuyama estimates, predicting further humiliation by Kiev in the subsequent episodes.

The entire position of the Russian Army in southern Ukraine seems to collapse, and Ukrainians have a real opportunity to free the Crimean for the first time since 2014.

Something similar, however less dramatic, is happening in China. Instead of a collective leadership, China has become a personalist system and Xi Jinping has provided itself with a new five-year term, the third consecutive, to which no senior official can approach.

And this concentration of authority towards one person has caused poor decision-making and the country's economy is suffering. They also failed with their so-called “zero covid” policy because China failed to develop effective vaccines, so what was viewed as a victory over the management of Ovid-19 years ago has now become a heavy debal.

Such failed regimes are not just in China and Russia. There is Iran, which was hit by protests after the death of Mahsa Amin, who died in the hands of moral police. According to Fukuyamas, Iran is in a terrible situation -- the state is facing a banking crisis, is running out of water, is experiencing a major vacuum in agricultural productivity and is suffering from international isolation and sanctions.

The regime is led by a group of older men whose social attitude, he estimates, is old - fashioned.

The only country that can be named as even weaker-run is another dictatorship, Venezuela, which has sparked the largest influx of refugees in the world in the last decade.

Fukuyama points out that the biggest question in all of this, unfortunately, remains in the United States. 30 to 35% of American voters believe the fake 2020 presidential election event was mounted and that the Republican Party was taken over by drivers of the movement THE former US president's MAGA, Donald Trump, who are doing their best to put all unbelievers in office of power throughout the country.

The party's alleged leader, TrAmp, has sunk even deeper into the arrangements he believes can restore as president and that the state must criminally punish its presidential predecessors, including what is already dead, according to Fukuyama. /Periscopi/