so yeah, the period of craziness that lasted from 1900 to 1990 was basically the old empires getting broken down and turned into ethnocentric nation states.
the period of craziness we are in now involves trying to cobble together empires again now that they have a complete lack of popular credibility.
Would you care to expand on this?
WWII ended with all the people that had moved around across Europe and Asia being put back neatly inside the borders of ethnic nation states, so all the Germans pushed out of Poland and Czechwhatever back into Germany, Japanese out of Korea, and of course formation of modern state of Israel.
Shortly afterwards the European empires dissolved and lost their colonies in Africa, India, and Indo-China, although not without another fight.
Then the Soviet Empire fractures and Yugoslavia breaks up into a handful of states with a new one added every few years.
To some extent this process is still continuing, with separatist Kurds and Basques and Catalans and even Scots and Welsh (!) and Cornish (!!!) groups all agitating for their own ethnic states.
At the same time you have clumsy attempts to create a new European empire in the form of the EU, an empire without an emperor, nothing but bureaucrats and technobabble that no one believes in, devoid of any legitimacy.
Britain, France, Germany, Japan, all used to be actual empires, now they are not. The Ottomans had an empire, Turkey does not. Russia and China used to be empires, remained empires under Communism, now they are both ethnic nation states struggling to digest their minority populations.
South Korea exports TV dramas, not an empire. Israel exports weapons, not an empire. France has nuclear weapons, not an empire.
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