The dawn of Cold War II
Here's a chilly thought: We are seeing the dawn of a second Cold War between Russia and the West. But this one should be easier to manage than the first was.
The headlines over the last week have echoed the bad old days of the 20th century: Russian troops marching into someone else's territory. Poland calling on NATO to help secure its borders. Americans and Russians trading angry charges at the United Nations.
But just as in the last Cold War, remaining calm is the starting point for strategy.
"The whole point of the Cold War was avoiding a direct military confrontation," said John Lewis Gaddis of Yale, the dean of American historians of the era. "The whole story is one of respect for each side's sphere of influence."
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