"Why The Next Cold War Will Be More Dangerous ..." Topic

…Than The Last One.

"As the Minsk accord seems to collapse, new military dangers loom.

Nation contributing editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussion of the increasingly dangerous crisis in US/NATO-Russian relations. Cohen emphasizes that as the Minsk agreement to negotiate the Ukrainian civil and proxy war is being rejected by all participants (except Moscow), the New Cold War is rapidly being militarized and spreading to many countries in Eastern Europe. The result may be a confrontation more dangerous than the preceding 40-year Cold War, for several reasons: its epicenter is not in Berlin but on Russia's borders; unlike during that cold war, there are no shared rules of behavior or, as evidenced by the apparent collapse of the Minsk accord, ongoing diplomacy; and a new nuclear arms race is beginning without the traditional arms control process. Also discussed is whether the upcoming summit in Russia of Shanghai Cooperation and BRICS nations indicates that the Obama administration's policy of "isolating Putin's Russia" has failed and instead spurred a process toward a "multipolar" world order. Positions taken, or not taken, on the crisis by current candidates for the US presidency are also examined…"
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More new deadly weapons would be my first thought …

I think it is still way too early for comparisons, especially since military expenditures are a fraction when compared to the height of the cold war. In addition, there are far fewer nukes in Europe than in the past. Also, the Warsaw Pact is gone and most of these countries are now actually members of NATO. Lastly, it really is a game of Russia vs everybody.

Remember that we (the West) won the first Cold War and we have far stronger financial capabilities than in past decades.

Perhaps, though it's really hard to beat the "good old days", when many more, shiny new, nuke weapons were pointed at one another, and ready to launch at the press of a button, while our opposing navies played bumper boats in the Med., and tag beneath the waves.

Now, I suspect, we'd have to wonder if many of the weapons would respond to launch commands, since they are so old and decrepit. Therefore, if it does go nuclear, perhaps humanity will only be destroyed three times over, instead of ten times, just to be sure.

Good points Mako11!.

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