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The decision
by the US president Obama to normalize relations with Cuba, was
interpreted, naturally, as a mark of the end of the Cold War.
However, many somehow forgot that a new Cold War era has already
begun because of the Western bloc actions.
It is rather
remarkably unprecedented the fact that a US president admits openly
that a certain policy applied for decades by the United States, has
actually failed. Further from the symbolism of this decision, its
significance should be translated not in terms of the end of a Cold
War, but probably in terms that mark the beginning of a radical
transformation of the US policy.
The change
of this policy comes with a rather moderate president, if we compare
him with Reagan, the Bush father and son, or, Clinton, briefly, the
US presidents of the last three decades, and indicates that the US
probably start to recognise that the multi-polar world is inevitable.
In the past decades, the US were always exercising power in their
"backyard" Latin America, or other countries, through
military coups and puppet governments, with only the Soviet Union as
the big opponent.
However,
during the last four decades we observe quite a radical
transformation of capitalism which has been fully financialized.
Together with the development of technology, this has created an
extremely fast and deeply interacted, thus rather unstable, global
system. The US capital was ready to conquer the world when suddenly
realized that there was a sleeping giant that woke up and a bear that
recovered from its wounds.
The counter
attack by the Sino-Russian bloc was something rather unexpected, with
Russia using mostly its energy power and China using its workforce
and rapid trading expansion. In this overpopulated world however,
other players came into the game that really changed geopolitical
balance dramatically, like India and Brazil.
The West
suddenly discovered a multi-polar world, not only in the economic,
but also in the military level. The US probably start to realize their
limits for the first time. It is impossible to deal with all opened
fronts simultaneously. Therefore, we observe a change of their policy
so that to maintain as much as possible their global sphere of infuence
because realize that even their "backyard" is moving fast to
the other side.
However, we
must not forget that under Obama, Russia was challenged in Ukraine
and Crimea. The Western governments didn't hesitate to support
neo-nazis in order to drag Russia into a disastrous conflict. It is
questionable whether the next US president will continue the policy
of "peaceful approach", or, will foolishly risk a military
conflict with the Sino-Russian bloc as the only option left for total
domination. It will depend mostly from the pressure exercized by the
deep state and the financial oligarchs who pull the strings.
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