Putin thinks he can win a new Cold War. He may be right
If we stand now on the brink of a second Cold War, as many analysts have argued, it’s because the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, calculates that his odds of winning are better this time around.
Looking back on the lessons of the Cold War — and at the state of our politics now — it would be hard to conclude he’s wrong. It’s much tougher to demonstrate the rightness of your ideology when, increasingly, you don’t seem to really believe in it yourself.
It sometimes astounds me how fast the country moved on from what President John F. Kennedy called the “long twilight struggle” with communism.… Seguir leyendo »
