Trump, Putin and Xi Are Living in Orwell’s World: John Authers

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Vladimir Putin’s encounter with Donald Trump in Anchorage summons bad memories of past summits in Munich or Yalta, in which the destiny of smaller Eastern European nations was decided by greater powers without their participation. But a fictional model from the postwar era seems more prophetic.

George Orwell’s 1984, written in 1948, tells of a world divided into three great powers. They are:

• Oceania (The US, plus South America, the UK, Australia and southern Africa).
  
• Eurasia (All of the old Soviet Union, including Russia, and continental Europe ...