Reorientation required

Totalitarianism is an unprecedented historical phenomenon that subjects international and domestic politics to the politics of unlimited aims and the fears they engender. Calling it politically “irrational” is appropriate. Any attempt to change it should therefore be questioned for its ultimate metaphysical motivations. Still, the conflict between East and West has produced a kind of stable structure which may be seen as a double balance, a balance of incomparable weapon types and a balance of horrors. This balance has already begun to disappear and in its place there may emerge countless conflicts between new and badly defined forces or, possibly, something like an absence of the stuff of real conflicts

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