Wed Apr 19, 2023 – 4:35 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – In part three of this series (click here to read parts one and two), we look at the end of what Charles Krauthammer called the Unipolar Moment – his assessment of the opportunity for the United States to be the sole hyperpower following the fall of the Soviet Union.
We shall see how the neoconservatives have driven the former allies of the U.S. into moving off the dollar, and how their actions have considerably strengthened both China and the new BRICS bloc that it leads.
What is the argument for a new multipolar world?
We may apply Charles Krauthammer’s argument for the supremacy of the United States in world affairs to this question. He wrote the seminal piece on the unique opportunity for the United States to lead the world.
Written in 1990 for Foreign Affairs, Krauthammer’s piece follows swiftly on the collapse of the Soviet Union. The peaceful dissolution of the Warsaw Pact saw the subsequent absorption of many of its former members into NATO:
American preeminence is based on the fact that it is the only country with the military, diplomatic, political and economic
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