{"id":44694,"date":"2019-03-23T09:38:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T14:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44694"},"modified":"2019-03-23T09:38:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T14:38:40","slug":"the-cold-war-ides-of-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44694","title":{"rendered":"The Cold War Ides of March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/the-cold-war-ides-of-march\/\">The Cold War Ides of March<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>US Cold Warriors escalate toward actual war with Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Russia-flag-Kremlin-ap-img.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Russia-flag-Kremlin-ap-img.jpg?scale=896&amp;compress=80\" alt=\"Russian Jets and Flags\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian Air Force Su-25 jets fly past the Russian flag on the Kremlin complex during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Friday, May 4, 2018.\u00a0<em>(AP Photo \/ Pavel Golovkin)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>H<\/strong>eedless of the consequences, or perhaps welcoming them, America\u2019s Cold Warriors and their media platforms have recently escalated their rhetoric against Russia, especially in March. Anyone who has lived through or studied the preceding 40-year Cold War will recognize the ominous echoes of its most dangerous periods, when actual war was on the horizon or a policy option. Here are only a few random but representative examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a7 In a March 8&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/russian-trolls-can-be-surprisingly-subtle-and-often-fun-to-read\/2019\/03\/08\/677f8ec2-413c-11e9-9361-301ffb5bd5e6_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.08078b9cb4b5\"><em>Washington Post<\/em>&nbsp;opinion article<\/a>, two American professors, neither with any apparent substantive knowledge of Russia or Cold War history, warned that the Kremlin is trying \u201cto undermine our trust in the institutions that sustain a strong nation and a strong democracy. The media, science, academia and the electoral process are all regular targets.\u201d Decades ago, J. Edgar Hoover, the policeman of that Cold War, said the same, indeed made it an operational doctrine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a7 Nor is the purported threat to America only. According to (retired)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2019\/03\/08\/putin-other-authoritarians-corruption-is-weapon-weakness\/?utm_term=.f572c409ba23\">Gen. David Petraeus and sitting Senator Sheldon Whitehouse<\/a>, also in the&nbsp;<em>Post<\/em>&nbsp;on the following day, the \u201cworld is once again polarized between two competing visions for how to organize society.\u201d For Putin\u2019s Kremlin, \u201cthe existence of the United States\u2019 rule-of-law world is intrinsically threatening.\u201d This is an \u201cintensifying worldwide struggle.\u201d So much for those who dismissed post\u2013Soviet Russia as merely a \u201cregional\u201d power, including former President Barack Obama, and for the myopic notion that a new Cold War was not possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cold War Ides of March US Cold Warriors escalate toward actual war with Russia. Russian Air Force Su-25 jets fly past the Russian flag on the Kremlin complex during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Friday, May 4, 2018.\u00a0(AP Photo \/ Pavel Golovkin) Heedless of the consequences, or perhaps welcoming [&hellip;]<\/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":[149,512,17966,862,5228],"class_list":["post-44694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-cold-war","tag-media","tag-stephen-f-cohen","tag-war","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44694","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=44694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44695,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44694\/revisions\/44695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}