With an aggressive Russian policy in Ukraine, Crimea and the Baltic States and Putin’s announcement that Russia would add more than 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) to its nuclear arsenal, there is much talk — most recently by Secretary of State John Kerry — of the “new Cold War.” This ignores a simple fact: a weakened Russia can hardly launch a new Cold War. During the first Cold War (1947-1987), the Korean War and the Vietnam War caused almost 100,000 American military fatalities. The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was a showdown between two superpowers. Afterwards President John Kennedy mused …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
