(Resubmition because I forgot the submission statement) SS: As the doomsday clock already was closer to midnight than ever before, another year has only seen conflicts going up. With the promise of peace brought by interconnectedness and globalization being shattered all across the globe and nationalism rising in a similar fashion to that of pre-WWII, statistics seem to point that we are entering a new era of conflict as the optimism of the end of the cold war is left behind. That coupled with new war technology and the fact that it is easier to destroy ourselves like never before makes one seriously wonder how close we are to the brink that will make it all fall down. Perhaps this will be another cold war and the mid 1990s to mid 2010s period will be known as the interhiems (meaning interwinter) period, just like the interbellum period was known for a brief era of optimism at the start of the 1920s, followed by catastrophic economic depression and war. I hope humans can overcome the odds, obviously. But things aren't looking great.