Washington will have to play a special role in this new perestroika, not just because the United States wields great economic, political and military power in today’s global world, but because America was the main architect, and America’s elite the main beneficiary, of the current world economic model. That model is now cracking and will, sooner or later, be replaced. That will be a complex and painful process for everyone, including the United States.

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Mikhail Gorbachev, the last general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in Mikhail Gorbachev — Time for a Global Perestroika - washingtonpost.com (via quotingthecrisis)

Ha!