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Madeleine Albright wrote that Putin was making ‘historic error’ a month before she died

First female secretary of state writes that ‘Putin must know that a second Cold War would not necessarily go well for Russia’

The Independent UK

US Monitoring For 'Potential Contingency' On Nuclear Weapon Use, White House Says

The potential use of nuclear weapons by Russia in its invasion of Ukraine was addressed by both the Biden administration and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government, reviving a fear that disappeared from Europe with the end of the Cold War.

Benzinga

Is Russia going to expel the US ambassador and what would it mean?

Throughout long decades of Cold War both sides kept up a formal engagement Vladimir Putin is now threatening to end, writes Andrew Buncombe

The Independent UK

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Oliver Hartwich: The West is back

The weakened West might now have found a cause to unite strongly around liberal democracy, writes Oliver Hartwich

Newsroom.co.nz

How Putin’s disinformation mirrors classic Soviet propaganda from the Cold War

The US and the UK also did plenty of nefarious things during this period, 88-year-old Milton Leitenberg tells Andrew Buncombe

The Independent UK

Russia may not stop with Ukraine – NATO looks to its weakest link

Hours after Russian missiles first struck Ukrainian cities on Feb. 24, German naval commander Terje Schmitt-Eliassen received notice to sail five warships under his command to the former Soviet Republic of Latvia to help protect the most vulnerable part of NATO's eastern flank.

Reuters

Berlin Anti-war Concert Draws 20,000 at Brandenburg Gate

Some 20,000 people attended an anti-war concert in central Berlin on Sunday, police said, with listeners waving Ukrainian flags or holding banners with slogans opposing the Russian invasion. Gathering near the Brandenburg Gate, symbol of a divided Germany during the Cold War, many performers wore shades of blue and yellow…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Africa, Ukraine and Cold War hangover

Many African countries remember the Soviet Union as an ally — and the U.S. as a backer of thugs and tyrants

Salon

Liam Denning: Ukraine war ends the world as we know it

Roughly half the U.S. population has little or no memory of the Cold War. Which is good; life ought to be lived without the existential dread of mushroom clouds.

Tribune News Service

Reliance on nuclear deterrence risks nuclear use for first time in 70 years

Whether it actually worked during the Cold War remains debatable, but even if it did it’s unlikely to do so in future, writes Maria Rost Rublee

Newsroom.co.nz

The West thinks that Russians, suffering from sanctions, will end up abandoning Putin – but history indicates they won't

While Russia is leading a merciless war in Ukraine that has resulted in millions of Ukrainian refugees’ fleeing to neighboring countries, Western brands are on the exodus from Russia.

The Conversation

Battered but not broken: how global trade is responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Russia’s first McDonald’s store in opened in 1990, just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was a potent symbol that the Cold War was ending and a great ideological wound healing.

The Conversation

The False Promise of Arming Insurgents

America’s Spotty Record Warrants Caution in Ukraine

Foreign Affairs

How UK was warned for years to boost defence cash - 'Putin thinks we're scared to fight'

MPs, peers and retired top brass have all called on the Government to pump more cash into the military as war rages in Europe - and triggers demands for a return to Cold War-era funding

Daily Mirror

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Bristol Post

Ex-DWP offices to become 160 homes and Cold War nuclear bunker brought back into use

The plans received zero objections, Bristol city councillors told

Daily Mirror

Could Britain win a modern war? Key questions as Putin watches UK's 'terrible error'

As Russia's invasion into Ukraine comes to the end of its third week, there are fears the conflict may spill beyond the country's borders and the UK's own capability to protect and defend itself

Daily Mirror

'Dragon Lady' spy plane lands at UK base after unknown mission amid Ukraine-Russia war

The U-2 spy plane landed at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire and is an icon of the Cold War - with a range of specifications to make it one of the most stealthiest and secretive craft in the air

The Hindu

A misfiring and its trail of poor strategic stability

India’s missile incident has highlighted the sorry state of bilateral mechanisms it has with Pakistan for crisis management

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Evening Standard

We always knew the end of history wasn’t the final act for tyrants like Vladimir Putin

I am a member of Generation Fukuyama. Well, how could I not be? I turned 21 in 1989, the year that the Berlin Wall fell, triggering the implosion of the Soviet bloc and the end of the Cold War. It was an astonishing moment of emancipation, a colossal release of…

The Conversation

The promise and folly of war – why do leaders enter conflict assuming victory is assured?

Amid a staunch and passionate defense that has slowed the Russian advance to Kiev and global condemnation, Vladimir Putin’s motivation for invading has been subject to speculation: Just what does he hope to achieve by war in Ukraine?

Chicago Tribune

Ukrainian-born Walter Polovchak — the Cold War’s ‘littlest defector’ — lives happily in a Chicago suburb but is devastated by events in his homeland

A black-and-white photograph from August 1980 shows 12-year-old Walter Polovchak, small and skinny with hair falling onto his forehead, flanked by adults as he walked into a courthouse for a custody hearing.

Salon

Geopolitics and the Ukraine conflict

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have forged a new partnership in Eurasia. How will that shape the global future?

The Independent UK

In Russian invasion of Ukraine, Cold War echoes reverberate

A rivalry with Russia

Tribune News Service

Biden urged to invoke Cold War powers to blunt energy price hike

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is under pressure to invoke Cold War-era powers to force more domestic oil production as the war in Ukraine strains supplies, raising gasoline prices and fueling inflation.

Salon

Does nuclear deterrence even work?

Vladimir Putin's actions in Ukraine seem to risk nuclear war — and that breaks an important precedent

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