The post-WWII international institutions (UN, IMF, NATO, EU, WTO) were deliberately built by the Greatest Generation to prevent war and depression through institution-building on a global scale, creating the 'insurance system' for the maritime order until Putin's invasion of Ukraine began to overturn it.
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Dr. Sally PayneEvidence Quote
“they decided that the solution to World War and great depressions was institution building on a global scale... they get the the UN going the IMF NATO... to hold the peace institutionally and it did in the industrialized World until Vlad the bad”
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NWC 2025 INS Lecture - Dr. Sarah Paine: Geopolitics, Cold War Lessons and the Way Forward— U.S. Naval War CollegeCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:04:38 AM
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