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Not sure what the word "unipolar" means in the context of the world, but a lot of people tend to like it.
The following taken from an article in the Persian Journal. Click here to read the full article. Highlights mine.
Russian rise under Putin
Oct 21, 2007
Gul Jammas Hussain
He called the collapse of the Soviet Union "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century." Russian president was greatly helped by the astonishing rise of energy prices, as his nation is rich with oil and gas reserves. He used the country�s vast energy wealth to gain confidence and ability to reassert Russian influence and power.
Putin steadily increased spending on defense modernization and commissioned new ICBMs specifically designed to evade a proposed U.S. missile defense shield based in Poland and the Czech Republic. As a symbolic gesture, he also ordered the Russian Air Force to resume the Cold War practice of long-range flights by strategic bombers armed with nuclear weapons. As Russia's star rose economically and militarily, it forged alliances with China, Iran, Syria, and other neighboring states, and also established a foothold in the backyard of the United States -- the Latin America. Recently, China and Russia conducted joint military maneuvers in the Ural Mountains, and then at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, both countries warned the U.S. to stay away from the energy-rich and strategic region of Central Asia. Thus Russian leader replied to the U.S. in a fitting manner for its encroaching on Russia's traditional �sphere of influence near abroad� in the Baltics, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Ukraine, and the Washington-backed "color" revolutions, which toppled Moscow-friendly governments in Georgia and Ukraine in 2003 and 2004. Russian president confronted the United States on various fronts. On February 10 at the 43rd Munich Security Conference, he told the world audience that the U.S. was trying to establish a "unipolar world", which he defined as "one single center of power, one single center of force and one single master." The goal, Russian leader said, was a "formula for disaster." "The United States," he said, "has overstepped its borders in all spheres� and �has imposed itself on other states.� |
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