Perhaps it should have been foreseen. That Reagan-Thatcherism would open the road which would eventually lead to Trump. That democracies not unbudgingly centred on popular welfare ushered in after World war-II would fail and reverse all things to a pre-world war I type of world. That both world wars were yet another of several European Thirty Years Wars for imperial supremacy, of which British America was an early product.
Had Spain been active and frequent participant in those Thirty Years Wars probably the whole of South America would have become British too. No matter. After becoming a post British white America, it set about undoing the Bolivarian half revolts and rewrought South America into a wholly owned subsidiary by a medieval sort of prolonged covert warfare.
After the Enlightenment that followed European Naissance (mistakenly and pompously named as Renaissance) dethroned religion from the sanctum sanctorum of human civilisation it was inevitable, since kings had formed a duopoly with gods for legitimacy, that the sans culottes will some day soon storm palaces and dethrone all kings. Europe had its wave of popular revolutions- French, English, Russian-inspired by godless creeds. By the end of the second millennium these revolutions, including the Chinese Revolution- a European type revolution with Chinese characteristics, have failed in their emancipatory goals. Except for some Scandinavian relics, European powers, shorn of their protein- giving colonies have been reduced to provincial puppet shows surviving on dregs of their industrial revolutions. The third millennium has opened on a muddied slate.
In the current millennium, whole of South America, Africa and Eurasia have become some shade of military or civilian dictatorships, although with inevitable rearguard popular resistances. Only G-8 countries are left. And excluding Scandinavia only America is left. Or was. Till Trump 2.0.
Everyone wants now to join BRICS. America would too soon. For opening a retro new era of global oligarchies of plunder. Like in the 19th century. An era Adam Smith had warned against. Think of it: Some king of Belgium could take the whole of Congo as his personal property. And Congo has never recovered.