righght about that time, next few yeaears, they assumed that the postwar world would be divided bebetween a german-controlled world, nazi-controlled world, most of eurasia, and a u.s.-controlled world, which would include the western hemisphere, the formerer britishsh empire, which the u.s. would take over, parts of thehe far east. and thatat would be the shape of the postwar world. those views, we now know, were maintained until the russians turned the tide.. stalingrad, 1942, the huge tank battle at kursk, a little later, made it pretty clear that the russians would defeatat the nazis.. the planning changed. picture of the postwar world changed, went on to what t we've seen nr the last period since that time. well, that was 80 years ago. today we do not -- we are not f facing the e rise of anynything like nazism,m, but we are facing the spread of what's sometimes called the ultranationalist, reactionary y international, trumpeted openly by its advocates, includuding steve bannon, the impresario of the movement. just had a victory yesterday -- the netanyahu election in israel solidified