WHAT WERE ONCE INTRACTABLE INTRA CIVILIZATIONAL INTRA RACIAL RELIGIOUS/ETHNIC CONFLICTS

 are now being overlain by cross civilizational racial, ethnic, and religious dimensions simultaneously.

These conflicts will prove to be insoluble either in the short run or the long run.

The past experiences, of large but more limited conflicts that have been intra civilizational, such as the Wars of the Reformation, demonstrate that they have been persistent, divisive, and almost perpetual once set under way after 1500. 

They defy both multistate consolidation, and especially the even further utopian ideal of melting pot globalization, and bedevil both multistate and empire collapses indifferently.