Cold War

The Biden administration will soon release its National Security Strategy, which is being revised in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The document will no doubt trigger a renewed debate about how the United States should gear up for a new Cold War against Russia and China.  But before…

Green Brook, NJ – WEBWIRE – Friday, September 23, 2022 The dread of the consequences of a radioactive winter is the nuclear threat. Ever since the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union first entered everyone’s mind, it has been a part of our imagination. The two…

Despite President Biden’s assurances at Wednesday’s United Nations meeting that the US is not seeking a new cold war, one is brewing between the world’s autocracies and democracies—and technology is fueling it. Late last week, Iran, Turkey, Myanmar, and a handful of other countries took steps toward becoming full members…

Last Updated: September 15, 2022, 00:01 IST United Nations Nearly 1,400 people died in flooding in Pakistan that covers an area the size of the United Kingdom and wiped out crops and destroyed homes, businesses, roads and bridges. (Photo: AP) The secretary-general also lamented divisions in the international community, saying,…

The Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev I knew was not the one known to most of the world—statesman, unwinder of the Cold War, Nobel Peace Prize winner.  My Gorbi was an old romantic who, in 1993, in the midst of the chaos from the Soviet Union’s collapse, helped launch one of Russia’s…

Russian Honor guards stand near the coffin with the body of the late former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, during farewell ceremony Saturday at the Hall of Columns of the House of Trade Unions in Moscow. Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA-EFE Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Thousands gathered in central Moscow on Saturday…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russians who came for a last look at former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday mourned both the man and his policies that gave them hope. President Vladimir Putin claimed to be too busy to attend. Gorbachev, who died Tuesday at age 91, launched drastic reforms that…

Essentialism underlies most demonization: you are what you were born to; change is impossible. It’s what makes Gorbachev’s noble efforts seem pointless. Mikhail Gorbachev speaking at a news conference after a Soviet-American summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1986 Credit: Yuryi Abramochkin / Юрий Абрамочкин / Wikimedia Commons I was saddened…

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev addresses a group of 150 business executives in San Francisco on June 5, 1990.David Longstreath/The Associated Press Mikhail Gorbachev, who presided over the peaceful collapse of the Soviet empire, only to see that legacy succumb to Vladimir Putin’s revanchist Russia, died Tuesday at the age of…

The last Soviet leader brought an end to the Cold War, but his reforms accelerated the break up of the USSR. Published On 31 Aug 202231 Aug 2022 Mikhail Gorbachev, whose reforms brought about the end of the Cold War but led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, has…