US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. File photoWASHINGTON, Oct 27 US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced the end of the post-Cold War era and the competition to define a new world order. He announced this during his speech at the Bloomberg conference in Washington. «Now is the moment when the era that followed the Cold War has ended, and there is competition to determine what will happen next,» he said. According to Blinken, the United States has necessary tools to do everything possible to play a central role in this determination. The Secretary of State, in particular, pointed to the joint work of the United States with other countries to support Ukraine in order to achieve a «strategic defeat» of Russia, as well as multilateral cooperation to compete with China. «If the United The states of America will not be involved in the great work of organizing the world, then either someone else will do it, and probably in a way that affects our interests and values, or no one will do anything, and then a vacuum is created that tends to be filled with bad things,» Blinken noted. worry, said in the US