{"id":10431,"date":"2015-07-27T07:47:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T12:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10431"},"modified":"2015-07-27T07:47:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T12:47:05","slug":"its-really-very-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10431","title":{"rendered":"It’s really very simple"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s really very simple<\/a><\/h3>\n

There are times when a loud cry of \u201cThe emperor has no clothes!\u201d can be most copacetic. And so, let me point out something quite simple, yet very important.<\/p>\n

The old world order, to which we became accustomed over the course of the 1990s and the 2000s, its crises and its problems detailed in numerous authoritative publications on both sides of the Atlantic\u2014it is no more. It is not out sick and it is not on vacation. It is deceased. It has passed on, gone to meet its maker, bought the farm, kicked the bucket and joined the crowd invisible. It is an ex-world order.
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\nIf we rewind back to the early 1980s, we can easily remember how the USSR was still running half of Europe and exerting major influence on a sizable chunk of the world. World socialist revolution was still sputtering along, with pro-Soviet regimes coming in to power here and there in different parts of the globe, the chorus of their leaders’ official pronouncements sounding more or less in unison. The leaders made their pilgrimages to Moscow as if it were Mecca, and they sent their promising young people there to learn how to do things the Soviet way. Soviet technology continued to make impressive advances: in the mid-1980s the Soviets launched into orbit a miracle of technology\u2014the space station Mir, while Vega space probes were being dispatched to study Venus.<\/p>\n

But alongside all of this business-as-usual the rules and principles according which the \u201cred\u201d half of the globe operated were already in an advanced state of decay, and a completely different system was starting to emerge both at the center and along the periphery.
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It’s really very simple There are times when a loud cry of \u201cThe emperor has no clothes!\u201d can be most copacetic. And so, let me point out something quite simple, yet very important. The old world order, to which we became accustomed over the course of the 1990s and the 2000s, its crises and its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[5712,4995,7561,4078,1236,834,1878],"class_list":["post-10431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-cluborlov","tag-dimitry-orlov","tag-emperor-has-no-clothes","tag-hegemon","tag-hypocrisy","tag-us","tag-ussr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10432,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10431\/revisions\/10432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}