Vox Day sees the Kraken rising:
…not only the Europe Union and the Arab states, but the United States as well, are in the process of breaking up: …
The six-decade post-WWII period has been one of the longest periods of economic growth in the West since the fall of the Roman empire, so it should not be surprising that there was relative peace and partially successful attempts to build supranational organizations during that time.
However, the prosperity brought about by the post-war rebuilding of a world shattered by global war ended in 1970s and was artificially extended by the large scale substitution of credit for economic growth and wealth production. With the end of the perceived prosperity, the centrifugal force bringing people together has also ended and now the political inertia is moving in the opposite direction.
With the pendulum at its nadir, nobody can remember when it last crossed the line, nor believes that it will, despite the highest velocity ever recorded and a tiny remaining distance to cross.
The arches crumble, the watchers go blind, and the masters lose their grip. Monsters will arise, and heroes; pulverizing despotisms, and vast frontiers of sweet de-facto liberty.
Then winter, and a false dawn, etching shadows onto walls.
(And some seers blaming Twitter till the waves rise past their lips.)