If you had been in the ruins of, say, London in 1945, or Berlin, and you had said, "Sixty years from now, this is going to be the most peaceful, prosperous part of the planet," people would have thought you were certifiably insane.
i, låt säga Londons ruiner 1945, eller i Berlin, och du hade sagt "Om sextio år kommer detta att vara den mest fredliga och framgångsrika delen av planeten", så skulle folk ha trott att du var galen.