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I’ve been thinking about how history tends to organize major periods of conflict around central figures, empires, or ideological shifts. For example, we talk about the Napoleonic Wars not only because Napoleon personally caused every event, but because his rise, ambitions, alliances, and conflicts shaped an entire era.
Do you think future historians might look back at the current period in a similar way? With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, renewed great-power rivalry, instability in the Middle East, NATO expansion debates, rising authoritarianism, and the influence of leaders like Trump and Putin, could this period eventually be grouped under a name connected to them?
For example, could historians refer to this as something like the “Trump-Putin era,” or even “Trump/Putin Wars,” in the same way earlier periods are associated with dominant political figures? Or would that be too simplistic, since these conflicts involve much deeper structural causes: nationalism, energy politics, declining U.S. dominance, NATO-Russia tensions, China’s rise, and the breakdown of the post-Cold War order?
I’m not necessarily saying the comparison with Napoleon is perfect. I’m more interested in how historians might frame this moment 50 or 100 years from now.
Will this be remembered as a series of separate conflicts, the beginning of a new Cold War, the collapse of the post-1991 order, or a broader global realignment?
What do you think?