Different from the movie, the fight ocurred in Switzerland and Rocky was a bit older and suntanned. Although, Drago was well represented by a gigantic bald Valuev (Now for Russia. Before, Lundgren fought for Soviet Union). Comparisons apart, the political scene is being also related to that one during Reagan’s Era by some specialists. A gaining power America against a weakening communist regime in the 80’s. Paul Volcker, president of Federal Reserve, raised taxes to overcome the consumption crisis that also collapsed Germany and Japanese economies, and the republican president launched the Star Wars Program.
More than 20 years later, the situation reminds that economic convulsion, in which North-America got unilaterally in the direction of global agenda. In the recent republican administration, however, the situation got worse, with the sequence of institutions getting bankrupt and a sequence of desperate banks and industries trying a bail-out. Confidence on Liberalism has been affected and, Bush’s government was questioned. Obama won from an opponent that made extremely bad choices.
Republican party got itself cracked from inside out and a black politician made himself president of world’s largest economy. Wasps didn’t get space in the new transition team that, ironically, had the same Paul Volcker, this time using the ideas of John Maynard Keynes. Foreign policy watched Georgia’s mess and Medvedev’s showed the world the resurgence of a superpower that, despite European Union’s efforts, doesn’t need NATO and reached treats with Venezuela, Nicaragua, Iran and other “rogue countries”, like America’s foreign policy uses to point.
Alexander the Great, a Russian nuclear submarine is making war games with Chavez military forces in USA’s backyard, the Caribean Sea. Their unilateralism is also being questioned in multilateral foruns and economic crisis along with a disturbing public deficit made other economies responsible for America’s turmoil. China, for example, has almost 10% of USA’s public debt.
In the fight, when Holyfield tried to seize the world champion’s belt, the Russian opponent won. A juri formed by an Italian, a Swedish and a Panamanian gave victory to the giant. A week after Bush’s disgrace in Iraq, Putin, for sure, had his day.
