The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was ostensibly a conflict between two ideologies, two socio-economic systems.<\/p>\n
All that seems to be over. The day of a new socialism may dawn unexpectedly, but today capitalism rules the world. Now the United States and Russia are engaged in a no-holds-barred fight between capitalists. At first glance, it may seem to be a classic clash between rival capitalists. And yet, once again an ideological conflict is emerging, one which divides capitalists themselves, even in Russia and in the United States itself. It is the conflict between globalists and sovereignists, between a unipolar and a multipolar world. The conflict will not be confined to the two main nuclear powers.<\/p>\n
The defeat of communism was brutally announced in a certain \u201ccapitalist manifesto\u201d dating from the early 1990s that proclaimed: \u201cOur guiding light is Profit, acquired in a strictly legal way. Our Lord is His Majesty, Money, for it is only He who can lead us to wealth as the norm in life.\u201d<\/p>\n
The authors of this bold tract were Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who went on to become the richest man in Russia, before spending ten years in a Russian jail, and his business partner at the time, Leonid Nevzlin, who has since retired comfortably to Israel.<\/p>\n
Loans For Shares<\/b><\/p>\n
Those were the good old days in the 1990s when the Clinton administration was propping up Yeltsin as he let Russia be ripped off by the joint efforts of such ambitious well-placed Russians and their Western sponsors, notably using the \u201cloans for shares\u201d trick.<\/p>\n