“Politicians are like diapers. They need to be changed often and for the same reason.” Mark Twain Imagine, if you will, that you're a member of the American ruling class at the back end of 1945. You reign supreme over every nation outside the nascent Soviet bloc, whether by force of arms or by virtue of the greatest economy the world has yet seen. Maintaining that hegemony must be priority number one. Cue the establishment of a vast array of international institutions, the World Bank and the IMF – the spawn of the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944 – and the United Nations (1945) chief among them. By 1948, the UN had issued its Declaration on Human Rights,
It's Going To Get Messy
It's Going To Get Messy
It's Going To Get Messy
“Politicians are like diapers. They need to be changed often and for the same reason.” Mark Twain Imagine, if you will, that you're a member of the American ruling class at the back end of 1945. You reign supreme over every nation outside the nascent Soviet bloc, whether by force of arms or by virtue of the greatest economy the world has yet seen. Maintaining that hegemony must be priority number one. Cue the establishment of a vast array of international institutions, the World Bank and the IMF – the spawn of the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944 – and the United Nations (1945) chief among them. By 1948, the UN had issued its Declaration on Human Rights,