The Russians are our neighbours and owners. The Mid East populations and people are our neighbours. The Chinese and Korean are our neighbours. As war has ended as we know it, the world has become a much like an actual cul de sac. We have no real enemies. Yet there is a tendency, albeit childish, to approximate glories in national history when he had enemies on which to express our need for nationalism. The world is facing a centralised command on many issues. If we are not careful with space, we will never understand how it's a solar radio active burial ground. We have no ships that we can design to withstand solar radiation in deep space; cooked, the ship is cooked.