“China and Russia represent the return of economically successful authoritarian capitalist powers, which have been absent since the defeat of Japan and Germany in 1945,” writes Azar Gat, a national security specialist at Tel Aviv University, in Foreign Affairs magazine.
Ironically, at precisely the moment when America’s military power appears to be at its apex, the world created by America’s “victory” over the Soviet Union 20 years ago has empowered nations once described with paternalistic pity as the “Third World” to vote with their feet on who they would like to see lead the planet. Increasingly, analysts note, they are voting against the United States.
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