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\"The<\/p>\n

The Three Global Super-Powers<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

There are currently three global super-powers, three nations that lead the world: China, Russia, and US.<\/p>\n

After World War II, until recently, the US clearly dominated the world, not only\u00a0culturally<\/em>, with more influence over the world\u2019s other cultures than any other single nation possessed, but also\u00a0economically<\/em>, with product-dominance throughout the world, and also\u00a0militarily\u00a0<\/em>tied with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and, then, after the Cold War, still possessing such military dominance, so that\u00a0in 2006, America\u2019s billionaires \u2014\u00a0as represented by the most-prestigious two agencies that represent their collective interests against the public, the Council on Foreign Relations and Harvard University<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 were actively promoting, broadly amongst foreign-policy academics,\u00a0the idea that the US should seek to occupy a position of such extreme military superiority over Russia, so that since 2006 the concept of \u201cNuclear Primacy\u201d is reflected, by America\u2019s power-centers, as being the correct goal for America, going forward, replacing the prior nuclear-strategic paradigm (since the 1950s) of \u201cMutually Assured Destruction,\u201d or \u201cM.A.D.,<\/a>\u201d in which nuclear weapons were (and, by Russia, still are) seen as purely defensive strategic military assets between the two nuclear superpowers, weapons whose only actual purpose, for either country, is to ward off a WW III \u2014 no usefulness at all in an actual aggressive <\/em>military context. Thus, M.A.D. became replaced in America by Nuclear Primacy, nuclear weapons that are put in place to serve not only to ward off a nuclear attack, but also, ultimately, to win a nuclear war against the other nuclear super-power, Russia \u2014 nukes as aggressive weapons, by which the US will (it has been expected, ever since 2006) soon be able to demand, and to receive, Russia\u2019s capitulation, surrender, or else Russia will be destroyed by a US nuclear first-strike, while US casualties, from any presumably few Russian weapons that might make it through this ABM-BMD shield, will be kept to an \u201cacceptably low\u201d level, by virtue of that then-functioning ABM-BMD system, combined with increases in US nuclear striking-power.<\/p>\n

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The Three Global Super-Powers There are currently three global super-powers, three nations that lead the world: China, Russia, and US. After World War II, until recently, the US clearly dominated the world, not only\u00a0culturally, with more influence over the world\u2019s other cultures than any other single nation possessed, but also\u00a0economically, with product-dominance throughout the world, […]<\/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":[5],"tags":[130,149,4394,18685,694,742,8203,827,862,7840],"class_list":["post-31220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-cold-war","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-global-super-power","tag-russia","tag-soviet-union","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-world-war-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31220","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=31220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31221,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31220\/revisions\/31221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}