{"id":40047,"date":"2018-11-02T06:15:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T11:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40047"},"modified":"2018-11-02T06:15:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T11:15:30","slug":"the-new-global-tinderbox-its-not-your-mothers-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40047","title":{"rendered":"The New Global Tinderbox:\u00a0It\u2019s Not Your Mother\u2019s Cold War"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When it comes to relations between Donald Trump\u2019s America, Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia, and Xi Jinping\u2019s China, observers everywhere are starting to talk about a return to an all-too-familiar past. \u201cNow we have a new Cold War,\u201d commented<\/a> Russia expert Peter Felgenhauer in Moscow after President Trump recently announced plans to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. The Trump administration is \u201claunching a new Cold War,\u201d said<\/a> historian Walter Russell Mead in the Wall Street Journal<\/em>, following a series of anti-Chinese measures approved by the president in October. And many others are already chiming in<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recent steps by leaders in Washington, Moscow, and Beijing may seem to lend credence to such a \u201cnew Cold War\u201d narrative, but in this case history is no guide. Almost two decades into the twenty-first century, what we face is not some mildly updated replica of last century\u2019s Cold War, but a new and potentially even more dangerous global predicament.<\/span><\/p>\n

The original Cold War, which lasted from the late 1940s until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, posed a colossal risk of thermonuclear annihilation. At least after the Cuban Missile Crisis<\/a> of 1962, however, it also proved a remarkably stable situation in which, despite local conflicts of many sorts, the United States and the Soviet Union both sought to avoid the kinds of direct confrontations that might have triggered a mutual catastrophe. In fact, after confronting the abyss<\/a> in 1962, the leaders of both superpowers engaged in a complex series of negotiations leading to substantial reductions in their nuclear arsenals and agreements<\/a> intended to reduce the risk of a future Armageddon.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The New Global Tinderbox:\u00a0It\u2019s Not Your Mother\u2019s Cold War When it comes to relations between Donald Trump\u2019s America, Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia, and Xi Jinping\u2019s China, observers everywhere are starting to talk about a return to an all-too-familiar past. \u201cNow we have a new Cold War,\u201d commented Russia expert Peter Felgenhauer in Moscow after President Trump […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2045,130,149,7844,11761,542,694,19452,827,857,865,6392],"class_list":["post-40047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-cold-war","tag-donald-trump","tag-michael-t-klare","tag-moscow","tag-russia","tag-the-unz-review","tag-united-states","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-washington","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40048,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40047\/revisions\/40048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}