The world as it is....
Eurocentric power circles with fading Cold War relationships.
Basically you have your eurocentric systems in place, currency/media/entertainment all oriented towards a lifestyle and methods of behavior and consumption lived and being emulated across the globe.
The eurocentric system consumes most of the world resources per person. The manfacturing base of these eurocentric systems is being eroded away by globalization. The shift in manfacturing overseas, reduces the quality of life of the common eurocentric citizen(america/europe/latin america/south america/australia), while the ruling class in these nations prosper immensely.
The shift in manfacturing escalates the quality of life in relative terms by measures from the eurocentric system. Ones ability to be mobile and be entertained and consume has been first originated and dominated by eurocentrists but is being passed onto our manfacturers. Lifespans for the common citizen have been increased for those nations that participate actively in this system. Our manfacturers are being paid in 'funny money' that looses value each day because of the lack of origination of wealth in the eurocentric nations.
One could argue whether the quality of life has improved for the common chinese citizen or factory worker, who basically has been reduced to a organic robot. Or whether that persons life would have been better in a more agricultural /agrarian setting. To escalate the quality of life of many, the population base has to be reduced in these manfacturing countries. Otherwise you have a very large population base whose quality of life standards cant be met since resource consumption would be huge in absolute terms. The beneficiaries of this system are the ruling class/elitists, who all have a common goal globally that transcends national lines. To preserve and maintain power and influence.
Now why wouldnt the elitists in the old soviet republics cooperate with the elitists in the west, because still there are old cold war era egotistical goals for the globe. The elitists through military/intelligence arms of their nations orchestrate and engineer events to maintain and preserve power. When economic trends and properity is spread to new inductees, if those inductees dont want to play the same ball game, they have to be convinced otherwise a new challenger appears on the world scene. The price of oil has been driving wealth creation in the new inductees, that wealth was being channeled to improve military and intelligence arms in these nations. To stop this the world had to be plunged into a financial abyss to buy time and consolidate power as much as one can.
A prospering Russia was attempting to reconsolidate old relationships and make more egotistical moves in regional/world spheres. What has happened in Georgia was just a small illustration of what could happen on a much larger front in the future.
While wealth is being printed and the consumption of eurocentrists is being subsidized fiscally, that tab is being passed onto to the manufacturers, the unit of wealth becomes less and less, ie (dollar looses value). But ultimately this does not matter since wealth is only secondary to maintaining power by intelligence/military arms of the eurocentrists.
Problem #2: How do you eradicate major populations without disrupting power circles.
- social education... one child policy by China...
- war
- social contagions... HIV
- periodic pandemics
All things you see happening on the African sub continent but on a much smaller scale.
That being said, that's a long term target I have in my book.