I'm not saying that at all though!π
But the "we" in "how we got here" varies pretty dramatically? Do you mean the "we" in Ukraine? Or the "we" in China? Or the "we" in America? Or the "we" in Europe? Or even the "we" in Belarus?
They're all in wildly different situations. For a variety of reasons. But I think we can agree that the people in Russia and China and North Korea are in a worse situation. For many reasons. One of which is that they are denied access to information on a scale that's incomparable to Europe or America.
Summing up the geopolitics of the entire world would require a book. Not an article. And somebody much smarter than me!π