War, Dissolution Cast Long Shadow On IMF, World Bank Meetings

Recent events have exposed the multilateral institutions tasked with facilitating and preserving global peace and stability as wholly ineffectual. That's nothing new. Indeed, describing the UN and sundry G[n]s as "ineffectual" is actually me being generous. I could conjure a long list of other, more pejorative adjectives. And they'd all be just as apt, if not more so. But the slow-motion dissolution of the post-War world order feels increasingly like a fast-moving collapse. Unfortunately, that