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Posts Tagged ‘united states because’  Back in the USSR
Wednesday, September 18th, 2013  Those among us who are middle-
aged or older will remember a song by the Beatles called “Back
to the USSR”. Ever since the minor crisis regarding the Asad
regime’s use of chemical weapons, this song has been stuck my
head.  This minor crisis has revealed, emphasized and
demonstrated what we wrote about here long ago, which is the
weakening of the Western bloc, especially the United States, and
the return of the opposing group to the center of international
stage under Russian leadership.  Putin’s article in the New York
Times openly expressed his opinion about the old-new
international situation, in which the world has stopped being a
unipolar system, and has gone back to being a bipolar system, as
it was until the end of the eighties, when the Soviet Union
collapsed, and the allies in Eastern Europe left it in favor of
joining with the Western, democratic world,