But let’s get back to Russia.Ģ006 is the fifteenth year since the definitive break-up and legal dissolution of the USSR - a sufficient time to indicate any historical trend. Perhaps I am oversensitive, but since the word “revenge” in Russian political terms (and not solely) has negative historical connotations, I hope that readers will forgive my purism. I prefer to speak of Russia’s “rebirth” and not “revenge”, as is often spoken of in the West. Thus, the rebirth of Russia should be welcomed by all who see themselves as belonging to the Euro-Atlantic (Christian) civilization. It is by now clear that the United States’ ambitions of remaining the world leader, a hegemonic global power, are doomed to failure. In this way, the victory over “communism” was transformed into a (for the moment, still tactical) defeat at the hands of an enemy that is much more violent and less comprehensible and known to the West – namely, “international terrorism”. Amid the euphoria generated by the illusion of hyperpower status and the triumphant headiness produced by the winning of the Cold War, Washington committed various errors (the most symptomatic definitely being the invasion of Iraq), thereby dissipating all the significant strategic advantages that resulted from the victory against the USSR. In truth, for a short while the United States boasted the title of hyperpower. Above all, Europeans and Americans have adopted a policy which is flawed in principle and even unbefitting towards Russia. It was a huge and perhaps fatal error, more serious than committing a crime, whose consequences will become apparent in the near future. Their aggression against Yugoslavia and the dismantling of Serbia was an error not yet recognized as such by the West. Those who missed an opportunity in the 1990s, both to their own detriment and alas to that of the entire world, were the European Union and, especially, the United The same can be said for “international terrorism”.
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The temporary geopolitical vacuum was used to full advantage by India and especially by China, who acted with prudence and caution, but in line with their objectives. And secondly, because one of the two superpowers has lost systematic control of a substantial part of “international terrorism”. Firstly, by the eclipsing of the dual superpower set-up. The new world order is distinguishable from the previous one by two essential indicators. But in the end, since the rebirth of Russia that began with the rise to power of Vladimir Putin has taken place quite rapidly, a quasi-classical balance of power very soon re-established itself, at the head of which was a small group of superpowers: the United States, the European Union (but no one Western European country alone), Russia, China and India, together with a geopolitical player that was outside the system which is rather conventionally termed “international terrorism” but which could be more precisely characterized as “anti-Western radical Islamic international terrorism”. For around a decade, there was a geostrategic vacuum which the most powerful players on the world political stage attempted to fill. If Russia had completely disappeared, then we would have been able to talk of an entirely new turning point in world history. Without doubt, the period represented a fork in the road of contemporary history. The 1990s were a time of temporary and partial exclusion of Russia from the traditional system of world geopolitical balances of power. In my opinion, the world is still in a transition phase between the Yalta-Potsdam system based on the global supremacy of two superpowers, one of which was the USSR-Russia, to a not-yet-fully-emerged multipolar structure which will, hopefully, be more democratic. Although the view that the age of the superpowers is a thing of the past is quite popular these days, I would venture to disagree. That - as a result of the fall of the Soviet Union and the anarchy of the 1990s - Russia would fall out of the list of key players in world history, were never realized. The outcome: the pseudo-borders of the Russian Federation will be exceeded. Putin’s time has witnessed the beginning of the rebirth of Russian power, forming part of Euro-Atlantic civilization together with the United States and the European Union, the emergence of the theory of “sovereign democracy” and its economic and geopolitical applications and American illusions.