Many observers have commented that American strategic planners have felt a pang of nostalgia for the former certitudes of the Cold War Era. With that in mind, please draft an aide-memoire interpreting Washington's criticism of the Russian tactics in Chechnya, demands for Russian forces to withdraw from Abkhazia and Moldova, and Secretary Rumsfeld's mission to Georgia as a legitimate and commendable democratic effort to restrain expanding Russian imperial power. (You may wish to include a few well-thouoght-out paragraphs clarifying that a strategic thrust to envelop Kiev in the arms of NATO is necessary to contain Russian expansionism.)
As the diplomatic service remains woefully inadequate at integrating economic pollicies into a coherent diplomatic strategy, include in your answer a symbolic application of the putative predominance of the American judicial system on a global scale. You might wish to conduct a Weberian "thought-experiment" imagining the collapse of Mubarak's regime in Egypt. Could not a Texas court be dextrously manoeuvered into placing the former president's assets into international escrow, to be awarded later to the victorious successor regime if it provides credible assurances that it will be guided by, say, the Bloomberg Financial Group, Goldman-Sachs, or the Carlyle Group?)
Please tie the economic and military-strategic paragraphs together with a patriotic hortatory injunction informing the reader that "loose nukes" in Russia constitute a global menace, whereas after a Third Democratic Revolution in Russia, a newly purified planet will labor diligently and optimistically for the new dominant congeries of trans-national corporations, troubled only temporarily and evanescently by earthquakes, tsunamis and pandemics in the best of all possible free-market business climates conducive, in the words of the Sage of Crawford, to "a better return on investment?"
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