So as future where we are again at each throats is better than one characterized by more more integrated collaboration? That stage is now apparently being set but you have to be blindly optimistic to think that any but a chosen few will survive, let alone prosper, in what looks to become a dystopian nightmare. Barack Obama got his Nobel Peace Prize because he believed humanity can actually work together to make a better world in a fully enlightened sense. Unfortunately his generosity of spirit was/is not shared as widely as hoped and we are now on a different tack, one better characterized as cut-throat competition for advantage with no regard for anything but the most immediate one dimensional objectives. Yes- raw application of power may engender respect, but it is more through fear than inspiration and it will also draw out violent resistance from those injured and those who more simply just despise tyrants and their agents. Better I think is to step back from that edge.