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The reasons were always the same: politico-religious fanaticism and the blunder of challenging the prevailing world powers – hence modern Zionism’s obsessive quest for a binding alliance with a superpower.
Worse, the dollar’s role as an international currency would be jeopardized, which in turn would severely impair America’s superpower standing.
Finally, with the USSR gone and the United States the world’s sole superpower, the geostrategic situation had changed entirely.
While elimination did take place in the former Soviet Republics, the Kremlin hung on to its nuclear arsenal – the last vestige of Russia’s former superpower status.
And cheating did indeed upset the broader superpower relationship.
As then-Under Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz explained to General Wesley Clark in 1991: “We learned that we can intervene militarily in the region with impunity, and the Soviets won’t do a thing to stop us… [We’ve] got about five to ten years to take out these old Soviet ‘surrogate’ regimes – Iraq, Syria, and the rest – before the next superpower [China] comes along to challenge us in the region.”
Clearly, Trump is not relying on the rationality of deterrence, as one would have expected from the leader of the last remaining superpower.
If the last superpower abandons these virtues, the world – all of us – will have to confront the consequences.
Even if America is no longer the world’s only superpower, it still remains the “indispensable nation.”
First, the “loss” of the Cold War, and with it imperial and superpower status, has created a deep and so far unresolved crisis in the collective mentality of Russia’s political class.
Meanwhile, back in the frozen capital of the world's remaining superpower, the political meat grinder has been readied.
But the US is finally realizing that even a superpower cannot ensure security in a country occupied by force.
If Russia has created a linkage between Eastern Europe and the Middle East, America’s allies in the region expect their superpower friend to make it work in their favor, not to allow it to undermine further an already-delicate regional security balance.
My final guideline for policy is that Europe is not and will not become a superpower or super-state.
But the intractable regional crises in the world today are land mines for the leader of the one superpower, especially when his own public is turning inward.
With the passing of time and the transformation of Israel from a small pioneer state to a regional superpower, Israel’s image became blurred and progressively negative, while sympathy for the Palestinian cause spread, despite Palestinian terrorism.
But they do not want America alone to shoulder the burdens of international peace, and they are gradually coming to the realization that leadership and cooperation do not come automatically, simply because America is the only superpower.
Today, with the US as the only superpower, it is even more important for countries to stand up and express their views - and to stick by them even when pressured.
And, like it or not, even a Russia that lacks the dynamism needed to succeed in manufacturing and the industries of the future will remain a commodity-producing superpower.
But in the post-World War II period, Japan again used the forces of globalization to reinvent itself as an economic superpower that became the envy of the world.
However much military hardware a superpower owns, decay of the will to use it is the same thing as a decay of effective power.
And yet the Soviet Union was a superpower, stagnant but stable.
Though the US remains the world’s leading superpower, China has emerged as both a new and ancient geopolitical force.
It is easy to imagine a world divided into two trade blocs, each centered on a superpower.
It is important to recognize that today's international situation and strategic stability are more fragile than during the Cold War years of predictable superpower rivalry.
The French consider Europe to be a kind of superpower – a status that implies a corresponding military capacity.
This was a remarkable admission: through their transition policies, they had managed, in just a few years, to decrease the productive capacity of the world's number two superpower by more than 40%, a devastating outcome greater than that of any war!
What was remarkable about this framework was that its principal author, the major superpower of the day, accepted its authority.
The time has come for Europe to reestablish itself as a true global player, not by attempting to emulate a classic superpower, but rather by consolidating and deploying different types of power.
With so many people on the move, it is even possible to become a settler superpower without being recognized as a state.
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