What happens after the very last shilling or franc has been stolen?
There is a real danger of corruption and perversion becoming normalised on the continent, alongside generational genocide as young people get mowed down by bullets just for holding different views from those of older people – and business continuing as usual?
What happens after the last gunshot? That was the uncomfortable question members of the Rotary movement kept asking as early as 1941, when the raging Second World War was not even halfway.
The League of Nations that had been formed after the First World War was already deemed a failure, having failed to prevent the outbreak of the new war due to lack of major power participation – the US wasn’t there while Germany, Japan and Italy had withdrawn.
