Update Ukraine (XXXII): Building A New Berlin Wall in Kiev - The Ukraine House of Cards
- That may sound somewhat extreme - but it's a perfectly logical extension, further on down the road, of what the Russian president intimated in his already legendary interview with Germany's ARD in Vladivostok last week: the West is provoking Russia into a new Cold War. [1]
Mikhail Gorbachev just stressed a few days ago the new Cold War is already on. Princeton's Stephen Cohen says the Cold War in fact never left. The Roving Eye reported about Cold War 2.0 months ago. Brits - still stranded in the 19th century new Great Game - prefer to spin the "strident toxic personality" of "diminutive Putin"; [2] he is the "ruthless, charming and ultimately reckless" man who "put the cold war back in vogue". The Council on Foreign Relations, predictably, mourns the end of the post-Cold War world, blasts the current "disorder", and dreams of the good ol' unchallenged exceptionalist days. [3]
For arguably the best detailed background on how we came to this perilous state of affairs, it's hard to beat Vladimir Kozin of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies. [4] Read him carefully. And yes, it's Cold War 2.0, the double trouble remix; between the US and Russia, and between NATO and Russia....
Vgl. auch Daniela Dahn: Von allen Seiten Nebelkerzen. Die Berichterstattung über die Ukraine zeigt, wie sich in dem Konflikt viele Medien von westlicher Außenpolitik vereinnahmen lassen | Der Freitag 26.11.2014 |
Und vgl. dazu auch Update Ukraine (XIV): Debatten über Preßfreiheit und was man wissen kann, wenn man will. Und ein Nachtrag, den Gaspreis und das Völkerrecht betreffend
gebattmer - 2014/11/30 17:53
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