I'm honored you chose to give your thoughts on my story! I don't think they're rubish at all. 40 years ago, I would have thought something similar. What's changed, for me, is my belief in rational man. Doestoevsky opened my eyes in "Notes From Underground" As he pointed out then, no matter how much technology we have to improve life each one of us does what we want first, often mean, hateful things we can't explain, then rationalize them later.

Whatever triggered the Ukraine war, I don't see any rationalization fixing. The war is bad for everyone. It makes no rational sense. Yet once people find a purpose they join it, no matter how irrational it seems. Every Russian soldier and government worker must know, deep down, the invasion was a mistake.

Whenever I read history about the World Wars I'm always thinking, "why didn't you guys quit then?" I'm talking about 2 weeks into it!

Today, everyone who studies U.S. policy knows that the U.S. really has no idea what it wants so hides behind its military might.

All the interesting ideas you have may one day become reality. But my reading of history is that we're many wars and decades off from that. I hope I'm wrong.