“Russia, Red China and Saudi Arabia are challenging the standing hegemony of the US in the political, economic and military spheres” During the Cold War, the Soviet Union made Eastern European countries its vassal states; attempted but failed to starve West Berlin into submission to communism; and fueled the war in Indo-China. Moscow imprisoned Cuba under communism; triggered the birth of Arab terrorists in the aftermath of its barbarous invasion of Afghanistan; and created North Korea, the evil state that today constantly threatens the world with nuclear annihilation. The Soviet government even imprisoned its own people in its notorious gulag...