The New Cold War

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“There are many ominous signs that dark clouds are gathering over international relations, from the South China Sea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Japan and South Korea to the Middle East, and to Ukraine and the Baltics.

We are entering a new and perhaps a more ominous Cold War.

This is something that will affect all our lives and will plunge us into a new era of East-West confrontation that none of us wants and that all of us should try hard to prevent.

Many young people were born after the end of the Cold War or were too young to remember its horrors, and how the world was on a knife’s edge about a possible global confrontation between the two superpowers with thousands of nuclear weapons whose use could have ended human civilization.

We, who remember those days, should make sure that we do not see a repetition of that dark period in human history.

Yet, sadly, a Cold War mentality is once again creeping back into political discourse.

The danger of the new Cold War is much greater than was the case with the old Cold War.

At that time there was some form of parity between the two sides, and neither side pushed openly for confrontation. There were rules of the game, confidence-building measures, neutral states and there were towering statesmen.

Today, the Warsaw Pact is gone and Russia’s military spending is only 8% of NATO’s spending.

This imbalance creates excessive self-confidence in the West and great apprehension in Russia.

We must bring about a moral revolution if we do not wish to repeat our past mistakes.

TFF intends to publish a series of PressInfos in the coming weeks exposing some of the false claims of each side against the other.

Facing the threats head on and finding ways of preventing them are essential to the survival of the human race.”

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Farhang Jahanpour

Intro to a series: The New Cold War