If the old is not working should we not try something new?

" Britain's historic vote to leave the European Union is already threatening to unravel a democratic bloc of nations that has coexisted peacefully together for decades. But it is also generating uncertainty about an even bigger issue: Is the post-1945 order imposed on the world by the United States and its allies unraveling, too?" laments the left wing New York Times. "Imposed" is the most important word in the paragraph, and imposed it was most brutally at times. With napalm, dioxin, white phosphorus, depleted uranium, cluster bombs and land mines on any nation that dared to challenge the hegemony of the west. They were even prepared to use nuclear weapons on the Middle East to prevent the Soviet Union from capturing its oil wells. It is impossible to understand why Indians are mourning the possible break-up of the European Union, calling it "ultra-nationalism and racist-xenophobia". We have suffered from the previous world order in which one Democrat President imposed sanctions on India for our nuclear tests while another Democrat President has been supplying the latest sophisticated weapons to Pakistan, despite repeated terrorist attacks on us. Democrats are supposed to be liberals, and Hillary Clinton, linked to both those presidents, is running for the White House. Brexit is perhaps the best thihng that could happen for India. So is the US the last remaining bastion of liberalism left standing? Maybe, but here too areas which were a solid base for the Democrat Party have turned Republican as jobs in coal and steel have disappeared due to globalisation. Both socialist Bernie Sanders and right wing Donald Trump campaigned on the basis of renegotiating trade deals. China and Vietnam have benefited from free trade because they erected barriers whereas Mexico has not done as well by relying on free trade alone, writes a professor. A British journalist calls globalisation a giant con trick. Citizens of poorer countries, even China, see themselves as 'global citizens', which probably means a desire to migrate to the west, while people of western countries are much more reluctant to label themselves as such. Apparently, around 20% of people in the western world are supporting fringe parties but the majority would like to stick to the status quo. Well Brexit has put an end to that. Now there are calls for 34 separate referendums in Europe. Trying to protect their jobs and standard of living, when the rich are benefiting from monetary policies of central banks, is not xenophobia. If politicians fail to recognise that it may lead to another war even as they remember the fallen, at the battle of the Somme. This time the outcome could be worse.