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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

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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

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

Bristol Post

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

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'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

Daily Mirror

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

The Hindu

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…

Evening Standard

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?

The Conversation

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.

Chicago Tribune

Geopolitics and the Ukraine conflict

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

Salon

In Russian invasion of Ukraine, Cold War echoes reverberate

A rivalry with Russia

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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

Inverse

'Warzone' Vargo 52: How to unlock, challenge guide, and the best loadout

A new 'Cold War' weapon called the Vargo 52 has been added to 'Warzone.' Here's how to unlock it and the best build for long-range.

Los Angeles Times

Cold War-style chill settles over Russia as world ponders Putin’s endgame

MOSCOW — On a wintry January day in 1990, the grand opening of the first McDonald’s restaurant in what was then the Soviet Union was hailed as an emblem of the thawing Cold War. A serpentine line wound through the capital’s Pushkin Square, a throng of thousands waiting patiently for…

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Ukraine war and anti-Russia sanctions on top of COVID-19 mean even worse trouble lies ahead for global supply chains

Francis Fukuyama, the American political scientist who once described the collapse of the Soviet Union as the “end of history,” suggested that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine might be called “the end of the end of history.” He meant that Vladimir Putin’s aggression signals a rollback of the ideals of a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Soldier Who Killed Che Guevara Dies in Bolivia

The former Bolivian soldier who claimed to have shot dead Marxist revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara died on Thursday aged 80, his relatives said. Mario Teran Salazar shot dead Argentine-born Guevara on October 9, 1967 in the eastern Santa Cruz province of Bolivia at the height of the Cold War.…

The Conversation

Would Putin use nuclear weapons? An arms control expert explains what has and hasn't changed since the invasion of Ukraine

The prospect of a nuclear exchange between Russia and the United States seemed, until recently, to have ended with the Cold War. Threats by Russian President Vladimir Putin to use the weapons to keep NATO out of the Ukraine conflict have revived those decades-old fears.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Putin’s dangerous nuclear brinkmanship in Ukraine

Most Americans view nuclear weapons as a relic of the Cold War. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed in 1985 “that a nuclear war can never be won and must never be fought.” That thinking has remained a “given” for the last 37 years. Unfortunately, Russian President…

Evening Standard

Liz Truss says Putin must fail as she vows ‘we must never let down our guard again’

The Foreign Secretary said the West had taken its ‘eye off the ball’ since the end of the Cold War

Edinburgh Live

Huge American B-52 bombers with deadly arsenal land in UK as Ukraine war rages

The colossal machines were used in the Cold War and have been regularly updated to spearhead America's military deterrent with state-of-the-art nuclear and conventional weaponry.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: When war comes calling, meet it with resolve. And love

I grew up during the Cold War, when we hid under our desks for safety. As a child, I believed that I was doing my part by ducking under my desk and knowing how to respond when the air raid sirens went off. Crouching under a desk seems laughable today.…

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