Hegemony Is As Old As Mankind.

We Have Actually Experienced In Recent Months A Dramatic Demonstration Of An Unprecedented Intelligence Failure, Perhaps The Most Significant Intelligence Failure In The History Of The United States.

Global Stability - Economic As Well As Political - Is At Risk.

Ukraine, A New And Important Space On The Eurasian Chessboard, Is A Geopolitical Pivot Because Its Very Existence As An Independent Country Helps To Transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia Ceases To Be A Eurasian Empire.

Like So Many Empires Before It, The Soviet Union Eventually Imploded And Fragmented, Falling Victim Not So Much To A Direct Military Defeat As To Disintegration Accelerated By Economic And Social Strains.

According To The Official Version Of History, Cia Aid To The Mujahadeen Began During 1980, That Is To Say, After The Soviet Army Invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.