Open warfare between states is increasingly rare in the modern world.
But against the optimism of liberal internationalists, this end to state-on-state violence has not meant world peace. In fact, their own liberal worldview is often responsible for the main source of conflict today: ethnic conflict.
While the world has become more peaceful, there is a clear pattern that most of the biggest conflicts since the Second World War, and especially since the end of the Cold War, have been ethnic conflicts:
Irish and British
Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Albanians
Hutu and Tutsi
Chechens and Russians
Armenians and Azeris
Indians and Pakistanis
Arabs and Africans
Ukrainians and Russians
Arabs and Jews
Modernity has brought increased cooperation and interconnectedness, global capitalism has incentivised countries out of undertaking costly wars, proliferation of defensive military technology has made occupying hostile populations too costly, international law and cooperation have brought stability to the global system, yet brutal ethnic conflict persists.
Liberals were overly confident that the opening up of the world into a global village would do away with ethnic conflict and lead to the embrace of a global, humanitarian identity. They fundamentally misunderstood human nature and the trend of modernity.
Nationalism emerged from the spread of communications technology and literacy - the empowering of the masses, who tended to be more nationalistic than the aristocratic and mercantile elites who had previously governed.
Far from stripping away ethnic identity, communications technology and the realisation of a world of other nations has everywhere been a catalyst for people discovering and identifying with their own ethnic identity.
Three decades after liberal internationalist Fukuyama declared the end of history, while intra-state violence is at an all time low, the world is still host to the most barbarous kinds of tribal conflict within states.
Despite seeing these ethnic conflicts everywhere, liberals lie to us about the nature of them, blaming inequalities, racism, climate change, ideological differences, capitalism, colonialism - anything but recognise the obvious truth that the norm for all of history has been tribal identification and tribal conflict.
Minimising this conflict starts with a basic recognition of the nature of humanity as innately tribal. Liberals continue to import millions of non-Europeans into the West, sowing the seeds of future ethnic conflicts. In their denial of reality, they also fail to offer real solutions to ongoing ethnic conflicts, whether in the Donbas or Palestine.
We must recognise, not resist, perennial truths about human nature, and build a peaceful world on those truths. Diversity everywhere leads to conflict. Peoples everywhere seek self-determination and self-rule. The answer is a world of peoples, a world of nations - an end to forced diversity, mass-immigration, forced integration, settlement expansion.
An end to globalism and a world of peoples free to pursue their own destinies outside of anti-human liberal utopianism.
Mike