It is a crisis that should concern all Canadians because the world is edging into a 'regional' nuclear war. Nuclear weapons did not die with the collapse of the Berlin wall, as some would like to think. Ethnicity, theology and special interests are increasingly dominating geography, nations and political ideology into producing conflicts. Several trends cannot be ignored. The relative power of nations is declining in the face of mounting power of transnational special interest groups.
Nations have difficulty controlling their borders against the flow of people and information.
These trends are no guarantee that big wars are over. Indeed, they suggest that conflict will be on the rise. There are some startling differences between 1945 and now for Canada. Today, our oceans offer less protection. Also, the world is much smaller because of the speed with which events are felt around the world.