BRICS Summit Should End Neocon Delusions
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The majority of the world does not want or accept U.S. hegemony and is prepared to face it down rather than submit to its dictates, writes Jeffrey D. Sachs. By Jeffrey D. Sachs Common Dreams The recent BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, should mark the end of the Neocon delusions encapsulated

The recent BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, should mark the end of the Neocon delusions encapsulated in the subtitle of Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1997 book, The Global Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives.

Since the 1990s, the goal of American foreign policy has been “primacy,” aka global hegemony. The U.S. methods of choice have been wars, regime-change operations and unilateral coercive measures (economic sanctions).

Kazan brought together 35 countries with more than half the world population that reject the U.S. bullying and that are not cowed by U.S. claims of hegemony.

  • تحريرها كلها ممكن
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    5 days ago

    A lot of people in the West still think it is natural and good for 12% of the world to dominate 88% of the world. Any other possibility is seen as an existential threat to Western civilization.