Unipolar world modeled on Pax Americana ("Rebelion", Spain)

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In 1991, due to the collapse of the USSR, the United States remained the only superpower in the world, which enabled them to establish a new world order along the lines of the American world (Pax americana).

The bipolar world that existed between 1870 and 1945 for a year and was characterized by a struggle to redistribute the globe between a handful of European and non-European powers was unreliable and caused two world wars (1914-18 and 1939-45). The bipolar world that existed from 1945 to 1991 was also unreliable during the year when the United States and the Soviet Union were in an acute confrontation that almost spilled over into the Third World War using nuclear weapons. This historical the stage is known as the cold war.

As a result, the existence, starting with 1991, of a single superpower that did not have a worthy adversary, could suggest that even with all the gravity of responsibility that the status of the center of world power imposed on a single superpower, a unipolar world free from struggle for world domination between powers and superpowers will at least be more reliable.

Did the world know at least some period of greater peace and security since it was under the sole authority of the United States? Has the real Pax americana been established in the world in which one could at least breathe freely (I'm not talking about being happy) after all the fears of the Cold War that threatened to develop into a nuclear apocalypse?

From my point of view, the answer should be negative. The unipolar world is modeled on Pax americana, from which, as I understand it, we are gradually moving away — it existed, strictly speaking, from 1991 to 2008 for the year — neither calmer, nor safer, nor more peaceful. Now the world is becoming multipolar again.

In fact, between 1991 and 2008, the year is the presidency of George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush - the United States, in an effort to impose its economic and political interests on others, resorted to the disproportionate and unjustified use of its military power. As one would expect, Pax americana could not be anything other than a manifestation of triumphant imperialism in the system of the capitalist world. This entailed wars, bullying and disregard for all the norms that the world was subjected to during the period (much shorter than expected) of their unquestionable world hegemony of the United States.

Hopelessly mistaken were those who naively assumed that the unipolar world modeled on Pax americana would be more reliable and safer because the US has the opportunity to push through the solution of old problems, to do away with outdated injustices, such as the endless Middle Eastern conflict, the main victim of which is the people of Palestine. Unfortunately, in its international policy, the United States was guided by two highly dangerous strategic interests: establishing control over oil resources and neutralizing old or new rivals, such as Russia and China, that could threaten the world hegemony that the United States had just gained.

This was the cause (and in most cases the pretext was terrorism) of the first and second Iraq wars, aggression against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, conflicts and tensions in which the superpower was involved. In the case of Iran, directly. In the Caucasus - indirectly.

In all other respects and in terms of the Western Allies, primarily Europe and Japan, the main difference during the period that lasted the unipolar world of the Pax americana model was how the administration of the Democrats led by Bill Clinton and Republicans, led by George W. Bush. Clinton much more tried to save face in relations with Europe and Japan and more respectfully treated the UN, the creature of the policy pursued by the Democratic Party during the Second World War, as well as NATO, the American make-up of the Cold War period. George W. Bush, Jr., and even his Vice-President Richard Cheney and the “hawks” from the neoconservative camp, who by all means tried to bring the Project for the New American Century to life with fire and sword (PNAC, Proyect for the New American Century) ), they considered that the American military power would provide them with the opportunity to act without regard to their allies, without the consent of the United Nations and, at the first stage, even with NATO. While Clinton and even George Bush Sr. pursued a policy of multilateral unipolarity, where the US appeared before its European allies as primus inter pares (first among equals), George Bush Jr. and Cheney, cynically disregarding all existing norms, had already moved to politics one-sided unipolarity, making it clear that the United States has really become the only world superpower and will act based on its own interests as it sees fit, whether someone from their European their allies. The most graphic example of this is the second war in Iraq.

So, the reality has shown that, among other things, the belligerent Pax americana made serious mistakes. The political, military and financial elite of the United States admitted that their country could simultaneously conduct two or even three victorious wars - in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran (?) - forgetting that on earth the US military did not have as much undeniable power as on water or in the air. It is one thing to destroy a country from the air, as it was done in Yugoslavia, Iraq and even in Afghanistan, and even defeat the regular army in a conventional war (for example, in Iraq), and quite another to constantly occupy the country where there is an endless guerrilla war. . An example of this is in part Iraq and especially Afghanistan. The resistance of the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan after the invasion of foreign troops on their territory and the reaction of the population of the occupied territories clearly revealed the limits of the power of the American military machine, which did not dare to inflict so often a predicted and almost no-announced strike on Iran.

On top of that, the steady economic growth of such new dynamically developing industrial powers as China, India and Brazil, as well as of a resurgent Russia, on the one hand, and the economic crisis that broke out in 2008, which someone sees only as a decline in production, and someone, like a depression, on the other hand, seems to point to the approaching end of the transient unipolar world of the sample and the beginning of the transition to the as yet unknown new multi-polar world order.
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    22 July 2011 23: 39
    well done francisco morote costa)
  2. Svyatoslav
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    23 July 2011 01: 36
    Even NATO allies are fed up with Pindos.
  3. Artemy
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    13 January 2012 11: 44
    "Clinton was much more trying to save face in relations with Europe and Japan and was more respectful of the UN," when he bombed Yugoslavia without UN permission, it’s like, hey, he turned the UN around all the UN nations. The beginning of justifying the murderers, and in general the question of who is worse than Clinton or Bush, and the plague on both your houses!

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