History repeats itself, but fortunately not always in the worst possible way. At the beginning of this millennium, almost exactly one hundred years after the First World War, worrying signs of admiration and longing for totalitarianism began to spread in Europe to the extremist right-wing world a century earlier.
In 2025, the situation started to look really nasty when Donald Trump was elected President of the United States and his inner circle began to include millionaires who possessed social media and thus had the greatest opportunity ever to influence people's opinions around the world.
However, people gradually began to shy away from the worrying developments in which the previously respected principles of self-determination, rule of law and democracy began to be trampled on. At the end of the 2020s, there were a few situations threatening world peace, but fortunately they could be combated especially after European countries found a common tone. Although the crises hit European countries, including economically, it was gradually possible to build a Europe in which nation-states could cooperate with each other. There are still differences, but with the rise of the economy, people have found that peaceful coexistence between different religions, peoples and cultures makes more sense than inciting war. Russia remains a question mark, as its recent decades have been turbulent, but it has not posed a real threat since the war in Ukraine and Putin's death. Trump's impact on the world during his second term was not as bad as it seemed at first. China's influence now extends everywhere, since it is the largest country in the world. With its economic power, it is able to influence many countries, and it is vitally important for European countries to work together to develop their own economies in order to make the best use of resources.