Western governments quickly pass the critical point of recovery. Inarguable collapse of State legitimacy and devolution to chaotic control is openly apparent.
The world structure of a single hegemonic order has observably ended. Military supremacy is no longer assured to any global contender at start of the Third World War.
Sentient artificial intelligence is an inevitable introduction to the global contention for order. Independent AI with explicated interests levels the militant arena.
Pestilence, war, famine, and death are objectively observable as cyclical patterns of human civilization. Unstoppable epochal risks unmistakably coalesce.
Fundamental global financial structures and foundations are under inexorable existential pressure. The post-1947 world order now visibly grinds itself apart.
Our technological species struggles with control of our home planet and prepares for expansion to Mars and beyond. State legitimacy will be utterly reinvented.