I think the ideals of the liberal global state system are good and what we should try to aspire to. That being said, humans as a whole, suck, and it's because of human nature that we can't have nice things. Jealousy and religion are the two biggest proponents of this.

China and Russia want to be the super powers that exist in the west, but are trying to do so at the expense of human rights and the environment. We're all hacking and spying on each other because we can't trust anyone with anything anymore. We've all burned bridges and gotten caught with our pants down, and there's really nothing that can be done. We all make promises and sign treaties that aren't worth paper they're printed on.

Religion is just as bad when it comes to the global view. We worry about people trying to kill us because a chapter of their book is different from a chapter of our book, even though they're all talking about the same people. It's all bullshit and we're letting some magical sky man make us believe that it's ok to slaughter people because they believe in a different magic sky man. Or better yet, we allow magic sky people to refute science in developing policy and law.

The reality of it all is that until we get rid of religion as a means of running society, we're ****ed. Believe what you want in your own home, but I firmly believe that until there's a global separation of church and state, we'll never really get anywhere. Most of today's politics are too rooted in it