The return of the empires

Russian President Vladimir Putin during a telematic meeting.SPUTNIK / Reuters

The disappearance of a bipolar world was interpreted as the end of history. A new era was inaugurated under the hegemony of the United States, which would assert its interests without opposition, within the political framework of liberal democracies. A neoconservative think-tank , the Project for the New American Century, with Rumsfeld, Cheney and Wolfowitz in its ranks, came to design the formation of a new Roman Empire, surrounded by satellite countries, with the incorporation of Iraq and its oil resources in Middle East. Only after the invasion of Iraq, the maneuver ended in disaster, it worsens ...

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