2015: A Time of Trouble and a Time of Opportunity

... to the shrewd diplomacy of Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon in the early 1970s, there emerged de facto a tripolar system of relations. Together with a group of expensive and unreliable allies, the Soviet Union had to confront the United States and the West all over the world, and China in the East. The Soviet Union had an unenviable geostrategic position. At present, two centers of the world economy and politics are taking shape. Having realized the futility of its hopes to establish a unipolar ...