Two events which occured on August 15, separated by 50 years, confirm the existential threat of not ending the "Post-Bretton Woods" era.

Aug. 14—“We are at the edge of war with Russia and China on issues which we partly created, without any concept of how this is going to end or what it’s supposed to lead to.” These are the words of Henry Kissinger in a Wall Street Journal interview published on Aug. 12.