More like 'welcome to history'. There have always been periods of peace and prosperity, sometimes hundreds of years long. Those living through these have always thought they were the exception. They have always been wrong.
He had this absurd premise that because the Soviet Union collapsed and free trade was surging every place everywhere would coalesce to a boring democracy.
> "Now this is not the end of end of history. It is not even the beginning of the end of end of history. But it is, perhaps, the end of the end of the beginning."