2015: A Time of Trouble and a Time of Opportunity

... attempts have failed to adapt the former principles to the new reality. New macro-tendencies are tentatively making their way through this chaos, which may shape the contours of a new world. The first such tendency is the emergence of a new kind of bipolarity. Strictly speaking, contrary to conventional wisdom, bipolarity never existed before. Or, rather, it existed only in the late 1940s and the 1950s until objective circumstances and the mistakes of the Soviet leadership resulted in the confrontation ...