One other aspect of the time: wars that no one seems to want to stop. Wars with respect to which the world divides into camps, and the ostensibly neutral countries (some of whom would be termed belligerents under the international law of a few years ago) are flooded with partisan propaganda.
There is a need for genuine neutrality among non-belligerents. Else, no one is throwing cold water on the fighting dogs. Wars profit industries (cf. Shaw's Major Barbara) so in an age in which politics is dominated by corporatism as opposed to the republic, ongoing wars can be a feature, not a bug.