War or Peace

In the sixteenth century, the effects of four revolutionary events emerged: the discovery of America, the invention of the printing press, the first global financial disorder, the Muslim invasion at Europe’s borders. The consequence was a Mundus furiosus similar to the one we live in today, marked by four parallel revolutionary events: the “discovery” of Asia and China, the emergence of the Internet and artificial intelligence, the risk of an economic crisis due to the disproportionate and artificial dominance of finance, the war on the Eastern front, from Ukraine to the Middle East, a unified attack on the Western world.The threat of international financial disorder looks every day more and more severe, driven by the massive ac- cumulation of debt. And many of our “statesmen” who embraced globalization in the past now wander through this scenario like “tourists of history”. With a striking political and economic analysis, Giulio Tremonti explains the unique moment we are living through and clearly points out what is at stake for the West and for Europe.