Very
appropriately, in view of my last anti-utopian entry, I am making a transition
here from the subsection on great utopians to the subsection which analyzes
different geopolitical situations and relationships in the world today, bearing
the wishful thinking angle in mind. But, as I said before, the overwhelming
avalanche of anti-utopian doom and gloom, pushed by a miserable state of world
affairs, leaves very little room for an optimistic wishful thinker, unless the
world suddenly becomes supple and obedient to the dreamer’s whim.
But
let the reader not be surprised by the contrast between my expressed pessimism
here and the fairly rosy content of some of the entries in the following
series. My pessimism is addressed to the overall megapicture, and the fact that
some of the specific international relationships discussed here are ostensibly
progressing on the ascending line, does not provide any encouragement for the
world at large.
The
critical element of the big picture is the state of the American-Russian
relationship. It is also by far the most worrisome of all international
relationships, and it will be the first we are about to discuss here.
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