A conflict between USSR and the USA which was the very beginning of the Cold War was not only a military one but rather ideological contest between the systems: communism and capitalism. ... Mikhail Gorbachev, who tried to save the situation even by half-measures only led to the collapse of the system. ... Even though west countries were deeply convinced at Russia entered right way to the democracy, but in the same moment Russia turned to system based on the oligarchy. ... Similar claims were made by some Western analysts, who asserted that the United States ' 'had promised the Russ...

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The United States possessed 1,054 ICBM's, and with submarine launching systems, were capable of detonating nuclear warheads any place on the planet. ... One such dissenter, Phil Williams, an analyst with the Royal Institute of International Affairs explained in 1985: By opting out of the arms race and placing, or misplacing, its faith in the arms control process, it is argued that the United States enabled the Soviet Union not only to achieve strategic parity but, in certain respects at least, to attain a degree of superiority (Williams, par. 1). ... However, many views of the internati...

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The present system of the world is established on what happened centuries ago. ... So one aspect of the present system, the desire of the US to remain the world's only super power has been explained above. ... However the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, just two years after the war began, as well as the Axis powers declaring war two days after the attack, brought the US into World War II, something that analysts believe sealed the fate of Germany and Italy. ...

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