But it should never be done in a manner which confirms Russia's unfounded claims to be the decisive force in this part of Europe."
VOA: standard.2009.09.17
By a quirk of history, the United States rose to great power at the same time multinational corporations were emerging as a decisiveforce in world affairs.
In the policy and strategy discussions that preceded the BUR, Secretary Aspin floated the idea of conducting one MRC rapidly and decisively while holding a second aggressor at bay until sufficient forces could be swung from the first contingency to provide the decisiveforce.