What I am worried about now is that the financial crisis that led to the Third World War may be very cruel. This is not impossible.
I hope I'm not still around when that happens. WW3 will probably be the end of most of the population.
That's a good point Putin made about global "cooperation" being largely replaced with "isolationism" or "protectionism". People may be losing their capacity to cooperate and coordinate which could be a significant negative trend over the long term as workers fail to cooperate in unionizing and citizens fail to cooperate to support the right economic or financial policies and so on.
Interesting point, though I don't know exactly how true that is. I'm pretty ignorant of global politics and economics in general, but the sense I'm getting from what little I read is pretty much what you wrote here. I'm not a big fan of China, as they've out-competed the US in manufacturing and tend to view counterfeiting goods as no problem whatsoever. I wouldn't like to see that country get even more power.