Amid escalating tensions, a new debate has emerged among historians and experts on Russia about whether the Cold War ever really ended—at least as far as Moscow is concerned—and whether American arrogance blinded successive U.S. Presidents.
since the Cold War. The combative language today echoes the political furies of the past. On Thursday, the Kremlin fired off an eleven-page response to Biden’s proposals to enhance security for both Europe and Russia. Putin balked—obstinately. Russia instead pledged never to abandon its two core demands—first, that Ukraine is barred from ever joining, the world’s most powerful military alliance, roll back its deployment of troops and matériel to its 1997 borders. The responserefuse.
Others still separate the historic eras. They contend that there are more differences than similarities between the Cold War of the twentieth century and the tensions of the early twenty-first. “I don’t think it would be accurate to say it was just an interregnum, a short little thing, and then we’re back to the way history always is,” Michael McFaul, a former U.S. Ambassador to Russia now at Stanford University, told me. “The old Cold War did end.
The Cold War lasted nearly a half century. Whether Russia actually invades Ukraine, the crisis has the potential to drag out and ripple across the other countries on Russia’s borders, as the Cold War did.
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