There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians and there are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no west.
There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only Walmart,
Microsoft, bp, and Time Warner. These are the nations of the world today.

There is only one vast dominion of dollars. Petro dollars, electro dollars, euros, rupies, pounds and dinars. It is the international system of currency that determines the totality of life on this planet.
That is the natural order of things today.

stolen from Paddy Chayefsky's Network (1976)