Meaning of Pax Americana | Babel Free

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The period of relative peace in the Western world since the end of World War II in 1945, coinciding with the military and economic dominance of the United States.

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“Earlier this month Boston's WBUR radio station titled a special on US imperial power with the Latin tag Pax Americana. Tom Wolfe has written that the America of today is “now the mightiest power on earth, as omnipotent as… Rome under Julius Caesar”.”

“A war like this — a voluntary war of aggression — would be a sign that Putin believed that Pax Americana was over and that the U.S., the European Union and their allies had become too weak to exact painful consequences.”

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