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THE YEAR 2016 showed ever more graphically and forcefully the depth of the value crisis of the Western political system led by the United States and its allies, regional and European. The remaining community of non-Western states increasingly distrust and even reject the West-imposed "gifts" of neoliberalism, which, according to prominent U.S. philosopher Noam Chomsky, has changed since Adam Smith's days only in terms of the scope of its expansion. Previously, these "gifts" were touted by traders and industrialists who used state power to serve their interests despite the painful consequences for others, including the British people ("others" are colonies, mandated territories and so on); now the goals are more wide-ranging and ambitious: entire countries and regions of the world, as well as the entire world itself.
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