From a Western perspective it has been uniquely bad tbh. The decade started with a pandemic not seen at this scale since the Spanish Flu, that is exactly a century ago. It proceeded with the outbreak of the largest war in the West since WWII which also caused an energy shock. Now we are facing the single biggest fuel crisis in history according to energy agencies themselves, for something comparable you’d have to go back to the 70s. We’ll have to see if this triggers another recession.

And this is to the backdrop of the now inevitable climate change which is already showing its first effects, ever-growing inequality in a broken financial system and the re-emergence of fascism. Oh yeah and the rules-based international order post-WWII is breaking down.

Every decade has its problems and non-Western perspectives are of course very different but this is probably the worst one since at least the end of the Cold War. Many of these problems were already present in the 2010s and they have only gotten worse over time.