Neocon editors of the "Foreign Affairs" obsessively repeat that United States are still No. 1. Did anybody need this reminder in the sixties during proclamation of the JFK's "New Frontier" or Johnson's "Great Society"? Equally obsessive is the neocon assurance on almost every page that Russia is an insignificant state, soon to disappear. Especially vitriolic are Alina Polyakova and that constant racist fixture of "Foreign Affairs", AEI's Daniel Eberstadt. If Russia's is currently so insignificant and its inevitable demise is true, why speak of it so much? Three out of 15 long reads dedicated to Russia directly and at least two--Rose and Zakaria touching Russia in every elliptical moment--suggest unhealthy obsession in their world perception. Neocon preoccupation with Russia can only be explained that they are locked in a time warp infinitely re-playing World War II on the side of the Nazis and their Eastern European supplicants so lionized by the current American media.
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