Guardian: It wasn’t really supposed to end up like this. When the Berlin Wall came crashing down 20 years ago, the cold war ended with triumph for the west. Instead of two superpowers, there was one. Instead of competing ideologies, there was capitalism, and a particularly brash form of capitalism at that. The elder George Bush said the world should learn how to do things the American way. “We know what works,” he said. “Free markets work.” The reach of the market grew longer for two …