This stellar collection of Paul Craig Roberts essays
dating from February 2014 explores the extreme
dangers in Washington's imposition of vassalage on
other countries and Washington's resurrection of distrust
among nuclear powers, the very distrust that Reagan
and Gorbachev worked to eliminate.
Roberts explains how the collapse of the Soviet Union in
1991 removed the only check on Washington's ability to act
unilaterally. The United States’ position as the sole
remaining superpower led to the euphoric proclamation
of “the end of history” and to Washington’s presumption
of the victory of “American democratic-capitalism” over
all other systems.
The neoconservatives became entrenched in successive
American administrations, both Republican and Democratic.
Their ideology of US global hegemony—the doctrine that
no other power will be allowed to arise that could constrain US unilateral action—
has become a foundational premise of
US foreign policy and has led to reckless intervention in
Ukraine and an irresponsible assault on Russian national interest.
In pursuit of hegemony, Washington has expanded NATO
to Russia’s border, instigated “color revolutions” in former
constituent parts of the Soviet Union, announced a “pivot
to Asia” to encircle China, orchestrated a coup in Ukraine,
demonized Putin, and imposed warlike sanctions against
Russia. These reckless and irresponsible actions have
brought back the risk of nuclear war.
This succession of events has impelled Roberts—following
an illustrious career in government, journalism and academia
—to perform the clarifying function abandoned by the
mainstream media of examining the agendas at work and
the risks entailed. His insightful commentary is followed
all over the world. In February 2015, Roberts was invited to
address a major International conference in Moscow hosted
by Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences and
Moscow State Institute of International Relations,
where he delivered the address which is the title of this book.
In Roberts’ assessment, Washington's drive for hegemony is
not only unnecessary but unrealistic and filled with peril
for Americans and the world at large. This book is a
call to awareness that ignorance and propaganda are
leading the world toward unspeakable disaster.
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