The beams of the West’s world order are creaking

If I told you 25 years ago that Finland, the country that was absolutely synonymous with the concept of strict geopolitical neutrality, would joined NATO; that in Switzerland, the country that was considered for decades the safest banking destination on the planet, one of its two largest banks would collapse; that in the United States, a former president would find himself in a criminal court for paying hush money to an adult film star in order to prevent her from talking about an alleged affair with him; if I told you all that 25 years ago you would have shaken your head, suggesting that "the poor guy has lost it."

Some of the realities that we thought were completely solid are either crumbling - sometimes with a loud noise - or shaking. It is very difficult, in the phase we are in, to do what we often do when we are standing in front of a painting that we do not understand...