The Real Reason Russia Teamed Up with China…Here’s What Comes Next for American Preeminence and the Dollar

• The Real Reason Russia Teamed up with China…Here’s What Comes Next for American Preeminence and the Dollar
  by International Man
  Editor’s Note: Vladimir Pozner is Russia’s most influential political TV talk-show host, journalist and broadcaster. Pozner has hosted several shows on Russian television, where he has interviewed famous figures such as Hillary Clinton, Alain Delon, President Dimitri Medvedev and Sting. Pozner has appeared on a wide range of networks, including NBC, CBS, CNN and the BBC. He has worked as a journalist, editor (Soviet Life Magazine and Sputnik Magazine) and TV and radio commentator in a long career covering many major events in Russia.
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  Pozner has appeared on The Phil Donahue Show and Ted Koppel’s Nightline. He has also worked for the Institute for US and Canadian Studies, a Soviet think tank. He co-hosted a show with Phil Donahue called Pozner/Donahue. It was the first televised bi-lateral discussion (or “spacebridge”) between audiences in the Soviet Union and the US, carried via satellite. In 1997, he returned to Moscow as an independent journalist.
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  Doug Casey’s friend Mark Gould sat down with Pozner in Moscow to help us better understand the relationship between the US and Russia.
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  International Man: Do you see a resurging Russia and a restoration of Russian Empire, or simply a national state resurgence?
  Vladimir Pozner: Certainly not. Russia is not a resurging empire. There is no way it’s ever going to be an empire again. Empires have this universal feature of disappearing forever, whether it’s ancient Rome or whether it’s the UK or whatever. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. It’s not going to come back, and people have to come to terms with that. Russia has been an empire since the days of Peter the Great— we’re talking about the 18th century. It is used to being an empire. The Soviet Union was an empire.
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  The loss of an empire is painful. It’s like when you lose a leg but have phantom pains—the leg isn’t there, but it still hurts. Well, that’s what’s going on. Psychologically, it’s difficult to accept. So, you have a certain degree of nationalism, chauvinism—and it’s part of growing out of what you were once upon a time and becoming something else.
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