Edited by W. Joseph Stroupe with the mission of explaining world events correctly via strategic analysis & forecasting
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When the US presided over the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, leaving a severely weakened Russia to stand on the very precipice of a chaotic collapse, and the US took up the position of unquestioned global dominance few imagined the possibility of a grand geopolitical reversal, wherein Russia (acting in concert with an array of strategic partners) would rise to global energy-based ascendancy over a severely weakened US.
However, just such a stunning Grand Reversal is currently underway. In fact, it is nearly completed.
The implications for the current world order and for the West are gargantuan, to say the least. Both Europe and the US have already forfeited their independent economic and political might. Europe’s forfeiture comes principally as a result of its growing, irreversible dependency on foreign gas, and the US forfeiture comes principally as a result of its gross and irreversible (anytime soon) twin dependencies (1) upon foreign financing of its colossal debt and (2) upon foreign oil.
The West’s loss of independent economic and political might translates to the geopolitical ascendancy of the multifarious East for the simple reason that it now firmly holds the key levers over the economies of the West. The multifarious East constitutes Russia as the nucleus, key oil and gas producers the world over, and the key rising powerhouse economies of the East such as China, India and others who have gathered around the Russian nucleus.
Russian Global Ascendancy |
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Multipolarity or Asymm-Plexity? |
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The Astronomical Analogy |
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Plate #1: The Binary System 1945 to 1989 |
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Plate #2: Soviet Disintegration 1989 |
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Plate #3: Soviet Disintegration Completed 1991 |
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Plate #4: Unary System Circa 1991 |
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Plate #5: Unary System Post 1991 |
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Plate #6: Unary System in Pre-Transition 1999 to 2002 |
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Plate #7: Unary System in Transition 2003 to 2006 |
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Plate #8: Realization of Asymm-Plexity 2006 to 2008 |
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Plate #9: Russian RUBICON portrayed |
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Plate #10: Asymm-Plexity Portrayed |
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