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For Russians, America was an evil empire, the world of capitalist exploitation and a nuclear superpower, but also a cradle of economic prosperity and individual freedom.
For America, Russia, too, was an evil empire, the world of communist expansionism and a nuclear superpower, but also a cradle of science, spirit, and soul.
Stalin’s empire needed no foreign classical orchestras.
In ancient times, India ran a large trade surplus with the Roman empire.
Rome responded by reducing the gold/silver content (the ancient equivalent of monetization), which led to sustained inflation in the empire.
The soldiers were all volunteers; soldiering was their profession, and they served the very British Empire that was oppressing their own people back home.
And they grossly overestimated the Soviet Union’s ability and will to keep its empire at all costs.
The accident in the case of Belgium is usually placed in the early nineteenth century, the result of Napoleon’s European empire collapsing and Dutch arrogance.
Russia’s future is even more uncertain; so far, it has been unable to rid itself of the phantom pains over its lost empire, much less arrest the deterioration of its society and economy.
Using violence in Kyiv’s Maidan has led to the birth of a new Ukraine that is determined not to become part of a new Russian empire.
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey would all seek their own “Sunni” bomb to counter the threat of a Shia nuclear empire on their doorsteps.
After President Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an “evil empire” in 1983, he was advised not to repeat it, in the interest of improving the bilateral relationship.
But this argument has the familiar whiff of the late stages of empire.
So it is today, to some degree, with Pax Americana – a kind of imperial world order that was never a formal empire.
The informal empire would not stand for that kind of insubordination.
But the decisive event for the revisionists was the collapse of the Soviet empire, which not only left the United States top dog globally, but also seemed, to the more philosophically minded, to vindicate Western civilization and values against all other civilizations and values.
(Many are the ways in which the Empire can strike back.)
Liberal World Order, R.I.P.NEW DELHI – After a run of nearly one thousand years, quipped the French philosopher and writer Voltaire, the fading Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire.
At that time, the fear was that southern Catholic minorities would undermine the unity of the newly founded German empire, intended to bring stability in the face of a rising radical socialist party, after a series of bloody wars (most recently against the French) and assassination attempts on the Kaiser.
As for Britain, while it no longer has an empire, it remains hugely important to Europe’s economy; indeed, the logistics of trade following a British exit from the EU is a key issue in the debate surrounding the referendum.
Rome did not succumb to the rise of another empire, but to the onslaught of waves of barbarians.
When it feared that it might be overtaken by the next rising economic power, the vast Russian empire, assertiveness turned into aggression.
Indeed, with words like these, Kolakowski, with Solzhenitsyn, Sakharov, and other kindred souls, ultimately did as much as the trillions of dollars spent on weapons to speed the demise of the totalitarian Soviet empire.
For nearly 100 years, first the British empire and then the US manipulated Middle Eastern governments, launched coups, bought puppet regimes, and supported wars, with the main purpose of controlling the region’s oil flows.
However, many giant cultural corporations - Japanese-owned Sony, Canadian-owned Seagram, Murdoch's empire or Germany's Bertelsmann - are no longer American, even though they promote American cultural models.
In the 19th century, the non-Muslim peoples of the empire also achieved the rights of equal citizenship with Muslims.
It affected the peoples of the empire one by one, including, towards the end, the Turks.
What the Turks remember, however, was the perceived “treason” of the other components of the empire, especially that of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
The conflict was now between Israel, a beacon of democracy fighting the expansion of a Shiite obscurantist empire, and an Iran that chose to protect its revolution by mobilizing the Arab masses in the name of Islamic values and against treacherous rulers who had betrayed the dispossessed Palestinians.
But the world saw in Russia’s onslaught against so puny an antagonist a thuggish state determined to recapture its lost empire.
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