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Germany

Right turn

I t has been clear for some time that the Far-Right in Europe is preparing to make the decisive leap from the fringe of political existence to centrestage. It has also been clear that such parties in various European nations may be working from a common script, at least as far as issues such as migration and LGBTQ+ rights are concerned.

World Government~I

Despite the Russia-Ukraine War that has been raging for 16 months now, one can say that compared to the previous centuries, the present century has so far been relatively peaceful, though fundamentalist forces threaten to tear this peace asunder. One reason for this is the advent of democracy in different parts of the world, and as Amartya Sen had said, democracies rarely, if at all, fight each other. Emergence of nation states in the nineteenth century may have played a part in this when they started replacing empires, kingdoms and city-states