Monsters and myths

In recent times there has been much talk about the imminent collapse of the liberal rules based order with Russia and China citied as the main culprits for this destabilisation. Is it true? Should nations be telling other nations what to do and how to act or should they be minding their own business? Statues are being torn down across the United States right now, including statues of Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. Why? How do you see into a black hole or into the depths of the oceans? Is it all skill or all imagination?