Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word

 

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word "modernity" if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.


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The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us... than the need for any external expansion of our power.

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