Persisting Social Crisis, The Emergence Of A

The Legitimacy Of The Leadership Depends On What That Country Thinks Of Its Leaders.

Our World Is Integrated To An Unprecedented Degree, While The Global Political Awakening Is Injecting Into Interstate Relations An Intense Amount Of Tension, Emotion, Even Irrationality, Which Could Cumulatively Produce Circumstances That Preclude An Effective And Genuinely Shared Universal Response To New Global Problems.

Russia Can Be Either An Empire Or A Democracy, But It Cannot Be Both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia Ceases To Be An Empire, But With Ukraine Suborned And Then Subordinated, Russia Automatically Becomes An Empire.

Though Stalinism May Have Been A Needless Tragedy For Both The Russian People And Communism As An Ideal, There Is The Intellectually Tantalizing Possibility That For The World At Large It Was, As We Shall See, A Blessing In Disguise.

This Regionalization Is In Keeping With The Tri-lateral Plan Which Calls For A Gradual Convergence Of East And West, Ultimately Leading Toward The Goal Of One World Government. National Sovereignty Is No Longer A Viable Concept.