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tions. Of course, the United States is more in a position to do so because of its financial, eco-
nomic, and military power, extensive transportation infrastructure, and sophisticated communi-
cations system. But it is only Western allies of the United States that would share ideological
goals to be set to such organizations while other members would be a burden on the Americans
as they would fail to meet U.S. requirements.
Russia possesses much poorer economic resources that the United States or China but there is
powerful weapon in its foreign policy arsenal - historical memory. There are strong pro-Russian
sentiments in many of the countries that maintained friendly relations with the former Soviet
Union and received assistance from it. So Russia has far from used up its role as a consolidating
center of power. It would hardly be fair to say today that the United States, China, and Russia
are the only countries to have the qualities we have mentioned.