Politics.be - De koude oorlog is nooit gestopt

Het mag duidelijk zijn dat de Koude Oorlog nooit is gestopt, de VS zag zich als overwinnaar en 'veroverde' het ene post-Sovjet land na het andere. Rusland hield zich vast aan wat het nog had en probeerde de grens en oude Sovjet gebieden te versterken.

Die botsing is pijnlijk duidelijk geworden in Oekraïne, de Koude Oorlog is opnieuw opgestart, of beter, nooit gestopt.

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Does the U.S.-Russia Crisis Over Ukraine Prove That the Cold War Never Ended?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily...ar-never-ended

Putin’s aggression in Europe has triggered a new debate about whether American Presidents and policymakers have misunderstood decades of history.

From the vantage point of history, some experts now view the current tensions as merely a new phase in a Cold War that never ended. “We can trace current strains back to the Cold War,” Robert Daly, the director of the Kissinger Institute, at the Wilson Center, told me. “There are important continuities.” He said the crisis today was not preordained or inevitable. If American, Russian, and Chinese leaders had made “a whole slew” of different choices along the way, history could have taken a different and less troubled course. “But it now looks like the period between the Cold War and today was an interregnum,” he said. “We thought issues were resolved, but it’s now clear that they weren’t.” The new prism on the past will be hard for Americans to accept, he said, because the crisis today reflects a “collective failure” over decades.

New American-led Cold War conflict with Russia & China has already begun, majority of EU citizens believe
https://www.rt.com/russia/535550-eu-poll-new-cold-war/

In July, former Kremlin adviser and leading Moscow academic Sergey Karaganov warned that a new Cold War is indeed on the cards, but he said Russia is already winning it. “There are several factors that allow us to talk about good chances for success,” the professor claimed. Moscow’s newfound partnership with China, he said, means that the two countries can turn their focus exclusively to the West, rather than fighting between themselves as they did during the days of the Soviet Union.

How the EU found itself excluded from talks on deciding Europe's future
https://www.rt.com/russia/546423-ame...e-europe-fate/

The EU has hit out after it was effectively excluded from security talks between Russia and the US. The fate of the world may have once been decided in Western European capitals, but now it seems to be out of their hands.
However, it seems increasingly clear that the bloc only has itself to blame for the fact its members no longer have a seat at the top table, leaving them the subject of discussions, rather than the driver of them.
A US-led Europe
In advance of the talks last week, Washington rhetorically agreed that European security cannot be decided over the heads of the EU and Ukraine, before then simply going ahead with the bilateral US-Russia format. Simply put, Washington cannot do diplomacy with Eurocrats in the room.