Agony of a Great Empire

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The United States, continuing to spur the Kiev regime it brought to power toward the continuation of civil war, is bathing in the blood of the Ukrainian people, believing it is thus underpinning itself in the role of world leader.

Agony of a Great Empire
Argumenti i Fakti, Russia
By Andrey Sidorchik
Translated By Jeffrey Fredrich
17 July 2014
Edited by Lau­rence Bouvard

At the start of the third millennium, the tide of historical processes has accelerated beyond belief. If earlier the process of the rise, flourishing and fall of great empires dragged on for centuries, now it is compressed into decades.

The upheavals occurring in the world in recent years, including the Ukrainian crisis, are part of a much larger process: the collapse of a great empire that has outlived its glory and desperately clings to the remnants of its former might.

I’m talking about the United States of America.

The country went from young power to world leader incredibly quickly by the standards of world history — in a mere century and a half. If you consider that during most of this period the U.S. distanced itself from active participation in world politics, the country’s ascent was like the blastoff of a space rocket.