Global Stability - Economic As Well As

We Have To Make A Really Cold Judgement. Would The Consequence Of Civil War Be More Devastating Than The Consequences Of Staying The Course?.

Soon It Will Be Possible To Assert Almost Continuous Surveillance Over Every Citizen And Maintain Up-to-date Complete Files Containing Even The Most Personal Information About The Citizen.

We Didn't Push The Russians To Intervene, But We Knowingly Increased The Probability That They Would.

Our World Is Integrated To An Unprecedented Degree, While The Global Political Awakening Is Injecting Into Interstate Relations An Intense Amount Of Tension, Emotion, Even Irrationality, Which Could Cumulatively Produce Circumstances That Preclude An Effective And Genuinely Shared Universal Response To New Global Problems.

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.