2015: A Time of Trouble and a Time of Opportunity

... 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... ... 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... ... order to extend the life of the anti-Russian regime. Things may come down to real trade wars, especially in view of the illegitimate sanctions that are one of their subvarieties...