Hugo Chávez believes that he is living in 1917. He has even been distributing red shirts to his followers. He is just saddened by the fact that he cannot find an imperial family to execute.
Ahmadinejad, on the other hand, would like the whole world to become a caliphate in the Middle Ages. He is sure he will be able to accomplish that feat by the use of the nuclear bomb.
Finally, Socialist Europe thinks that it has rebuilt the Roman Empire and that its citizens should be slaves who work full-time just to support an ever-growing state machine.
Is the world mad or is time travel not merely science fiction?