This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
The U.S. might enjoy overwhelming military advantage, but its relative economic power, which in the long run is almost invariably decisive, is in decline. The interregnum after the Cold War, far from being the prelude to a new American age, was bearing the signs of what is now very visible: the emergence of a multipolar world.
When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The implosion of the Soviet Union and a historic diffusion of economic and geopolitical power created new influences and established new global power centers - and new threats.
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.
The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
Russia is an important power upon which the U.S.A. imposed a Cold War.
Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.
For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?
American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.
Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.