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Электронное приложение к журналу «Международная жизнь»
tive eastward expansion that starting with the 1990s invited a very natural response from the
Russian leaders as a direct threat to Russia's national interests and security.
Finally, another American citizen and patriot, former chief of staff to former U.S. Secretary of
State Colin Powell (2002-2005), Lawrence Wilkerson was very critical of America's foreign policy.
In an interview to Baltcom, Latvian radio station on August 22, 2015, he said: "U.S. politics is
determined by about 400 people with a combined wealth of trillions of dollars who control gov-
ernment decision-making from the backstage.... Thus power is concentrated in the hands of
about 0.001 percent of the U.S. population."
The United States is still the world's most powerful nation both economically and politically; if
it insists on this political course, it will inevitably undermine its power and might becoming iso-
lated and retreating from its positions. We will live and we will see. Let's hope that the Doomsday
Clock that stopped at three minutes from midnight will move backward.