Marvin Gandall wrote:
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> This is an interesting article, IMO, for the following reasons:
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> 2. It proposes that the US ruling class and its allies are afflicted by
> "strategic confusion" about how to deal with challenges to their hegemony
> from Russia, China, and the Islamic world.
_Limits_ to their "hegemony." They're still in pretty good shape.
U.S. forces are _permanently_ established in Iraq, and there is no longer any significant resistance to that permanent establishment.
For a while various people had daydreams or nightmares that the U.S. literally "ruled the world" in some sci-fi fantasy fashion. It never did. It neer will. But Europe-U.S.-Japan isstill in fucking good shape.
So is capitalism. In Russia and China as well as the U.s. and Europe and Japan.
One would think Georgia was the keystone of the universe. The Russians won a skirmish. Big Deal. Win some lose some.
Carrol