Block, Siteadmin, SkipCaptcha, Upload, Automoderated users, delete, edit, move, nsTeam2RO, nsTeam2RW, nsTeam2_talkRO, nsTeam2_talkRW, protect, rollback, Administrators, template
294,724
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 161:
Line 161: + + + + + +
→20th century
===20th century===
===20th century===
[[File:Service-pnp-ppmsca-23900-23988r.jpg|right|250px|thumb|1942 American [[World War II]] [[propaganda]] poster designed to build support for the [[Soviet]] ally. The poster was part of a [[U.S. Office of War Information]] series aiming to foster positive views of Allied nations.<br>''Source: [[Library of Congress]]''<ref>https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2009634186/</ref>]]
[[File:Service-pnp-ppmsca-23900-23988r.jpg|right|250px|thumb|1942 American [[World War II]] [[propaganda]] poster designed to build support for the [[Soviet]] ally. The poster was part of a [[U.S. Office of War Information]] series aiming to foster positive views of Allied nations.<br>''Source: [[Library of Congress]]''<ref>https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2009634186/</ref>]]
===Unipolar moment===
{{See also|Unipolar moment}}
In the immediate post-[[Cold War]] period, no one contested the global supremacy of the United States. In effect, [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] presided over a global [[sphere of influence]] that excluded only [[China]], [[Iran]], [[North Korea]], and [[Russia]] in which it was able to act as it wished without regard for the [[UN Charter]], [[international law]], or other norms of [[international relations]] it had earlier helped prescribe. Meanwhile, the [[liberal]]ization and [[globalization]] of [[trade]] and [[investment]] brought new [[wealth]] to the world [[economy]], including China and the [[global South]].
But a combination of [[liberal triumphalism]] and [[ADHD|attention deficit]] [[diplomacy]] derived from resource-intensive "[[forever wars]]" and [[counterterrorism]] campaigns deprived the United States of any [[strategy]] for crafting a cooperative relationship with the newly reemerged [[Russian Federation]]. Instead, the traditional [[Western alliance|Western]] view of Russia as a latent enemy prevailed. Under pressure from [[Moscow]]'s [[Russophobic]] neighbors and their American [[diaspora]]s, a [[Military-industrial complex|military-industrial-congressional complex]] disoriented by enemy deprivation syndrome, diehard veterans of the Cold War, and force of habit, fear of Russia remained the guiding spirit of [[NATO]].
{{clear}}
{{clear}}