The collapse of the USSR set History in motion once again. It created a vacuum that absorbed the Western and mainly the American system at a time when it was itself in crisis and withering at its core. Thus, a double movement was triggered: a wave of American expansion outward, while at the same time, poverty and mortality were intensifying within the country.

The decline of Protestantism led the USA from neoliberalism to hedonism and Great Britain from financial dominance to the loss of humor. Between 2016 and 2022, NATO and Ukraine faced a stabilized Russia that had once again become a strong but conservative power, reassuring the rest of the world, as it did not wish to follow the West on its adventure. In 2022, Russia's leadership decided to take a stand, defying NATO and invading Ukraine. Drawing from the sources of critical economics, sociology, religion, and anthropology, Emmanuel Todd guides us through the real world, from Russia to Ukraine, from the former People's Republics to Germany, from Great Britain to Scandinavia and the United States, without forgetting the rest of the world, whose choices determined the outcome of the war.