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American Hegemony and the Politics of Provocation

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American hegemony is now on life support. Intensive care specialists are still scurrying about trying to resuscitate the patient. Family and friends are saying he’s still putting up a fight.

However, the undertakers of this dying order have already arrived and are standing just outside the door - one is named Russia, and the other China.

When the obituary is read we will learn that the deceased is survived by an older cousin representing a different order – balance of power realism ..

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Lance Ciepiela is a retired senior who had an interesting career in government service - a United States Marine Corps (USMC) Vietnam-Era veteran, who became interested in restoring the Constitution after I realized that W Bush had attacked (more...)

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