OPINION - We always knew the end of history wasn’t the final act for tyrants like Vladimir Putin

I  am a member of Generation Fukuyama. Well, how could I not be? I turned 21 in 1989, the year that the Berlin Wall fell, triggering the implosion of the Soviet bloc and the end of the Cold War. It was an astonishing moment of emancipation, a colossal release of human energy and a real-time drama of geopolitical realignment on a grand scale.