Is this letter to the Financial Times true ten years later?

'The Middle East in flames, China expansionist, Europe enfeebled, America ineffective and Russia resurgent' could be written now but many worse things could be tagged on. Trump and Netanyahu have turned out to be much worse than even the FT reading elite. I wish there had been only two failed wars recently.

Sir, Your pages overflow with predictions of disaster brought on by the Brexit/Trump axis. Leaving aside the depressing and repetitive pointlessness of this mass guesswork, its underlying assumption — that things were better when People Like Us were in charge — is at best dubious, at worst delusional. Under PLU rule, we have two failed wars and the Middle East in flames, China expansionist, Europe enfeebled, America ineffective and Russia resurgent. At home, we have banking crises, stagnant median incomes, uncontrolled borders, record indebtedness, profiteering by the “professional” classes, and general social polarisation. This is the Eden from which the rude and licentious electorates have expelled us? 

Face it. We FT readers had our decades in charge and we blew it for everyone but us. Time for us to do what we’ve been telling the rest of them to do for years, and suck it up. Or go forth and earn the respect that regains power. 

Keith Craig London SW7, UK 

Dec 16, 2016