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The Myth of Multipolarity

American Power’s Staying Power In the 1990s and the early years of this century, the United States’ global dominance could scarcely be questioned. No matter which metric of power one looked at, it showed a dramatic American lead. Never since the birth of the modern state system in the mid-seventeenth …

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Secrecy Versus Democracy: New Developments

A government with many secrets is not a democracy What are we to think when governments make every effort to keep their actions secret from their own citizens? We can only conclude that although they may call themselves democracies, such governments are in fact oligarchies or dictatorships. In a democracy, …

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War, What Is It Good For?

I was born on July 20, 1944, amid a vast global conflict already known as World War II. Though it ended with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 before I could say much more than “Mama” or “Dada,” in some strange fashion, I grew up at …

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The Wagner Group is creating a «confederation» of anti-Western states in Africa: this is why Sudan is so important to Prigozhin

Leaked Pentagon Files Say the Wagners Are Creating Instability in Africa Using Its Paramilitaries and Betting on Disinformation The Wagner Group works to create a “confederation” of anti-Western states in Africa . This was revealed by the Pentagon leaks reported by the Washington Post, according to which the group is …

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Obsolete Cold War Attitudes Are Holding Europe Back

Instead, an independent foreign policy is desperately needed—and gaining support. Recently, the United States has been followed by a number of European countries in supporting a cold war policy toward Russia and China. This has created increasing problems in Europe—bringing a major war to the continent, creating serious economic difficulties, …

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