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Seeing the Pax Americana unravelling, Brzezinski by 2016 acknowledged that United States «is no longer the global imperial power». That is what is making so urgent its antagonism toward China and Russia, along with Iran and Venezuela. The conflict is deeper than just national trade rivalry. The underlying issue is whether money and credit, land, natural resources and monopolies will be privatized and concentrated in the hands of a rentier oligarchy or used to promote general prosperity and growth. This is basically a conflict between finance capitalism vs. socialism as economic systems.