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russia is building nuclear in turkey and turkey has just signed a deal with iran.

india is 1/3 under maoist armed insurgent control and cannot be called stable.

rule of law works when everyone plays that game just like currency markets work when everyone lets their currency float. Not much sign of either.

the 'manage the decline' spiel is probably speak by civil service losers who have no idea how to win in the open field nor any nation building science? which is why they took cushty jobs in the civil service and merely perpetuate ritual?

how long should Vanunu be jailed for telling the world about something the passport fakers deny having?

as one freedom fighter once said about western civilisation 'i think it would be a good idea'.

being civilised is to put the good first. not some have a 'remove fascist dictatorships' marxist fit.

as we have no nation building science in what are our guardian class skilled in? expenses? ritual?

the people who have a nation building paln [even a bad one] are those who are proving successful such as the taliban and the maoists? those who don't have that science talk about 'managing decline' [because they do not understand how to rise?]

THE APE CONFUSED BY LANGUAGE (#1)

There is no ecological niche in the universe, where we (as currntly configured) could be sustainable. Planet of the Apes, perhaps, held a clue.

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possibly like a virus that kills its host?

however one [british] model that is accepted around the world is that of a game with rules and a ref. The super power on a football pitch are the rules. One player doesn't make up the rules as they go along.

if international activity was a football match what kind of game are nations playing? and where is the ref? In this one model we can see why the credit crunch happened [the refs were nobbled].

i was once an extra in a [very bad] film where one team kept putting more players on the pitch without taking anyone off so that in the end one side had 100 players against 11.

in the same way one can have rules in reason. if the good is the highest idea of the mind what follows? If other things such as race, tribe, religion, fairness, equality etc are taken as highest idea what follows? given the choice which is rational to choose? the better or the worse. the complete or the incomplete? etc.

we have no 'football game' where nationality is channelled [some of them 1970s games were rough-italian defenders!] because there are no rules. there is no nation building science. not that there couldn't be one.

Thank god (finally) for the diminution of NYC/Jewish dominated US foreign policy over the last 50 years.

The Chinese finally sussed them out during the 90's and ironically used their love for money against them to sadly undermine their host's economies.

The Chinese, by not letting their currency float, have totally controlled the entire process.

The end of Jewish hegemony?...I certainly hope so!

NATO in a multilateral World could be the biggest menace to Humankind, because nobody could guarantee there would be no more politics like Bush/Blair in the democracies`futures..

Yes well written and often I have wondered if the US was not a dominant player then what? But it's seems absolute power corrupts absolutely, this is the case with US. There is a certain sense of the referee being one sided and the carte blanche that Israel enjoys with the USA seems to make the world wonder. The great Roman empire fell and gradually the world plodded on, the current world does not need one nation exerting it's own pressure on others. In a world of chaos there will prevail a sense of conformity so it's quite OK for the USA dominance to come to an end. It's only a sense of economics no money, all the nukes in the world are useless.

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do the rules of MAD not apply anymore?

What is more important? National stability in the short-term, or international stability?

Riots in the streets of Greece and Romania are only the start of opposition to the austerity measures proposed by governments. Churchill said his attempt to subject the UK to austerity in the 1920's - by returning the UK to the gold standard - was his worst ever mistake.

National politics, quite naturally, dislikes the long-term perspective.

the best role a journo could have is to be honest and not beholden to anyone. sadly that is a rare bird these days.

so cameron is all up for a war with iran, he alone appears to know that iran has a programme to build nukes..and the timetable is short (not sure why it should be so)

such a brave man is cameron to make such a public statement whilst the rest of the world waits with baited breath for him to declare it ..

The US is not the only superpower anymore because Russia is a superpower again just Google the facts as there is just so much information verifying Russia is a superpower again that your article is misleading the readers this article above.

Russia is a global Superpower; it is a state with a leading position in the international system w becausehich has the ability to influence events globally and its own interests by projecting its power on a worldwide scale to protect those interests. Russia for fills the criteria of a superpower for its resources measured by its four axes of power: massive military, economic power, political power, and cultural (and the ability to use soft and hard power).Russia has as a massive political community that occupies a continental-sized landmass, has a sizable population (relative at least to other major powers); a super ordinate economic capacity, including ample indigenous supplies of food and natural resources; has a high degree of non-dependence on an international intercourse; and, most importantly has a well-developed nuclear capacity (in fact the worlds largest).

Russia is able to conduct a global strategy as a superpower including of having the ability to destroy the world (in fact more than the United States can); can command vast economic potential and world influence; and to present a universal ideology as Russia can project its power, soft and hard, globally on a world wide scale.