Sadly, I must agree with most of what you've said.  Most of us had hoped when the USSR fell apart, thanks to the efforts of Gorbi, not Ronnie, that we'd have a world were we could benefit from the peace dividend.  But sadly, not, we've been expanding militarily around the world since the Berlin Wall came down.  Putting NATO troops on Russia's doorstep led to Putin intervening in various old Soviet Union countries.  We're now picking a fight with China in their "Gulf of Mexico".  Ike's warning about the military industrial complex has gone unheeded, eventually we will pay for this with a third world war.  Perhaps that little third generation dictator in N. Korea will be the catalyst, the N. Korean people have nothing to lose, it cannot get much worse for them.  Most revolutions and chaotic events in history began with hunger.