The world order has changed,

The world order has changed, and you need to know that, and you need to know how, because this will impact every aspect of your life, economic, social, cultural, and personal. I'm an award winning attorney and international relations scholar, and when I was in undergrad, we had a lot of professors talk about international relations and the way that the world works. So for most of history, the world was multipolar, meaning that there were a bunch of different powerful countries, or hegemon, and no one country or two countries really dominated the entire world. In the 1900s, after Europe was embroiled in multiple world wars, most scholars agreed the world became bipolar. Between U.S. And Russia during the Cold War, that were dominating most international conversations, and impacting the economy worldwide. And no other countries came close. After the end of the Cold War, and really about midway through the Cold War, but definitely from 1989 onwards, the world was considered a unipolar world, as in the United States was the hegemon, far and away the biggest power, and it impacted everything. Most sociocultural impact came from America. Most of the new tech came from America, from California, where I'm from. American capitalism and globalization and standards of free trade took over the world. The American Navy kept the high seas free for free trade globally. American standards of the economy were everywhere. And other rising nations really started pegging their success to the U.S. Dollar, or their currencies to the U.S. Dollar. A lot of international development was driven by U.S. backed initiatives and by a U.S. led or backed United Nations. Yes, there were other powerful countries that didn't like this, like Russia, but they had little to no power to do anything about it, because the U.S. was just far and away the most powerful country in the world. And because I grew up in the United States, and patriotism is served along with your morning breakfast, most scholars thought of this as a good thing. The U.S. seemed to be a liberal democracy, was relatively protecting the world, doing things it didn't have to do to make sure free trade worked around the entire planet. It was promoting women's rights and liberalism. It was a good thing, said most people today. Today, I would say this year, as of 2026, the world is no longer unipolar, and America is no longer the hegemon. It no longer leads the free world, no longer leads the European Union, no longer leads our allies, who we've basically been a jerk to. The world is now run by a bunch of different actors depending on the topic we're talking about. And this is not just because of the rise of China and India and even Russia in some ways, although, frankly, Russia's destroyed its economy by attacking Ukraine. This is also simply because the US has ceded its power. With Donald Trump in charge. The US has made all of our allies feel like they can't trust us. With the war in Iran, he basically undid decades of the US protecting and upholding the law of free movement, of travel. Right. What he was doing with the Strait of Hormuz is against international law. And with tariffs, he basically attacked global free trade, something America had long led. This is because if you ask me, America was never truly unipolar. It's that it was a collection of oligarchs. That was the hegemon, not the U.S. Government. And this became really obvious when the interests of the American people completely diverged from the oligarchy, and it's the oligarchy that won. So here's what this means for you. When the world goes through this massive amount of upheaval, like a change from being multipolar to a different set of multipolarity, or from that to bipolarity during the Cold War, you know, a unipolar state, you can expect massive economic upheaval. You can expect massive changes in global free trade. You can expect little to no reliance on how corporations will behave and what sort of laws and regulations and user agreements they're actually going to follow. And so from an investment perspective, one of the biggest things that you can do is to diversify your portfolio and to not trust that any one specific country or company won't go under. This is also why now is, I would say, a particularly bad time to hold a ton of money in cash. It's probably a good time to invest in the stock market and ethical stocks and companies and yourself. That's really important. It's also not a great time to just count on your retirement. It's possible many countries won't be able to pay out in the way that we thought. When it comes to things like Social Security or pensions, pension growth. The second big piece of advice I have for you, too, is to invest in your community, because this is going to be a time of great upheaval and sociocultural change. And with the rise of AI, we're going to need to figure out how we're going to take care of each other and not assume that everyone is going to traditionally earn a living the way that people thought was the case in the 1960s or 90s. In the United States and a lot of countries that don't have a social welfare protection unit. A lot of this is gonna come down to the people you know, the people you're willing to care for, who are willing to care for you, and the way in which you can share community knowledge and labour. And number three is the hardest, but possibly the most important. Figure out how you can maybe get a second citizenship. If there's any way that you can double the chances that you have somewhere safe to go that someone's government is responsible for protecting you. That is a really important thing to do. And it is more accessible than most people think. And it is something that you do not need to be in the 1% to do, although it definitely requires some privilege and luck. But it's something you can strive for and work towards, and I think it's becoming more valuable than ever. So what do you think about this world? Enough people. And follow me for more. If you're a superhero.