The Scope Of America's Global Hegemony Is

Like So Many Empires Before It, The Soviet Union Eventually Imploded And Fragmented, Falling Victim Not So Much To A Direct Military Defeat As To Disintegration Accelerated By Economic And Social Strains.

In Early Times, It Was Easier To Control A Million People Than To Kill A Million. Today, It Is Infinitely Easier To To Kill A Million People Than To Control A Million.

An Arc Of Crisis Stretches Along The Shores Of The Indian Ocean, With Fragile Social And Political Structures In A Region Of Vital Importance To Us Threatened With Fragmentation. The Resulting Political Chaos Could Well Be Filled By Elements Hostile To Our Values And Sympathetic To Our Adversaries.

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.

With The More Endowed Nations Constrained By Their Own Higher Technological Capacity For Self-destruction As Well As By Self Interest, War May Have Become A Luxury That Only The Poor Peoples Of This World Can Afford.