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Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony
(literature.cafe)
Alt Text: an image of Agent Smith from The Matrix with the following text superimposed, "1999 was described as being the peak of human civilization in 'The Matrix' and I laughed because that obviously wouldn't age well and then the next 25 years happened and I realized that yeah maybe the machines had a point."
I personally don't see anything happening without some sort of massive revolution. The problem with revolutions is they almost always just replace bad governments with dictators. It really makes me appreciate people like George Washington. Also with China there's the tiny issue of trying to fight one worlds most powerful governments.
The other problem is that China and Russia brain wash there citizens to an extreme level. From birth they carefully restrict the truth in order to keep the current government in power. This probably means that most people in those countries would be fine with authoritarianism as they have never experienced full democratic liberties.