[Oyk]

The world is never peaceful so there's never a good time. Important thing is that the 4G must be groomed to be able to steer Singapore in times of turbulence instead peace. If 4 G can do that then he'll have succeeded in his handing over.

The recent events impacted us, and every country.  Covid, the Russian invasion (that triggered inflation across the entire world)...China is mentioned even though the death of LKQ is a domestic matter - theirs not ours - because if a bad outcome happens there, it will result in a power vacuum and a very unstable China as the rest will fight to try to seize the throne, vacated by force...all these will impact us

911, the death of Saddam Hussein, the final destruction of Osama Bin Laden, and closer to home, Mas Selamat, these were big news but didn't really impact us much.  We read about these things but life went on, we didn't get retrenched or have our salaries cut..

So when you say the world is never at peace, we need to also see whether the external environment impacts us badly or not.

Besides, the history of the world, or of mankind, is not all bad news.  There are ups and downs with periods of calm and growth/prosperity, some of the time, and periods of turbulence, wars, rising prices, and recessions, most of the time.  We or rather PM Lee just want to do a handover at a time when the waters are not treacherous.  If PM Lee hands over the baton when the waters are tossing and sinking boats, it might be construed as shirking his duty and passing the shit to someone else.  In layman's words, he is trying to elak or run away when the going is tough.

LKY and GCT managed to pass over the leadership in such times.