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The one superpower dominated world is becoming a thing of the past right in front of our eyes. Old international institutions are in decline, take the World Trade Organization (WTO), the European Union (EU) mired in crisis, or the degrading Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). So far, intense discussions of United Nations Organization reform have been nothing but shooting the breeze. The United States has already seen its heyday. It is still going strong with its military, economic and political potential but there are other states breathing down its neck. China has surpassed the US in terms of GDP based on purchasing power parity (PPP). The cooperation among BRICS members is on the rise. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is expanding with India and Pakistan on the way to membership. Greece, the homeland of democracy, has become the weakest link of the European Union.
This fact serves to emphasize the degeneration of the Western democracies with their same-sex marriages and shaky foundations the national states are built on. The United States starts to look more like a World War II battle ship with a large hole in the hull below the waterline. The damage is not visible, the ship continues to move with it formidable guns aimed at the enemy. But as time goes by the battle ship is losing speed and starts to go down. The melting pot that was so much spoken of during the days of Bill Clinton’s tenure is not that effective anymore, the United States has failed to become a united nation and the time approaches when the Anglo-Saxons don’t have to shoulder the “White Man’s burden» anymore with Latinos taking over as the dominant group. When it happens, the United States will become a different country with different culture and, perhaps, different goals to pursue. Today the United States is retreating to leave behind hotbeds of tension and unfinished wars. The armed conflict in Ukraine, the never ending war in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Iraq in ruins – that’s what the retreat results in. To slow down the process of degradation the United States is applying efforts to create the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) bringing together the golden bullion states as part of financial International. But this the time when “new right» and “new left» in Europe are gaining strength to insert significant changes into the plans of Washington and the financial International mentioned above.
They can either try to create a new system to unite nations, or go back to the idea of common security space from Lisbon to Vladivostok. The United States is considering the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership as a project aimed at cutting Europe off from Russia and pushing the Russian Federation deeper into Asia. The US shies away from using the term Cold War in regard to the current psychological and informational stand-off but, actually, it is waging such a war on all fronts. This affirmation is confirmed by increasing the strength and capacity of the NATO Response Force, returning US Army units to Europe, stationing forces in the countries which share borders with the Russian Federation, deploying missile defense elements in Europe, and launching debates to review the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said in early June that the United Kingdom could site American new nuclear missiles on British soil amid heightened tensions with Russia. There is no end in sight to the smouldering conflict in Ukraine. No matter all the attempts to restore peace (the Normandy Four, the mission of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) there is a danger of sparking a big war with the United States stepping in one more time as a “European savior». At the same time NATO forces would be deployed along the Russian border from the Baltics to the Black Sea. This scenario is still imminent. If the United States says “yes» to Ukraine joining NATO the situation will inevitably exacerbate further.
