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'Acting as an imperial power, Russia now seeks to redraw borders by force and to divide the world, once again, into blocs and spheres of influence.'
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In retrospect, the most surprising people of the 1980s were President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev died on Tuesday at the age of 91. His death is the last link to the Cold War's peaceful end, which was nothing short of miraculous.
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In the eyes of American officials, America symbolizes all of humanity, and whatever it does is thus moral and correct.
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To know what the Chinese are really up to, read the futuristic novels of Liu Cixin. “We are in the foothills of a Cold War.” Those were the words of Henry Kissinger when I interviewed him at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Beijing last November. The observation in itself was not wholly startling. It had …
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The lead singer of Scorpions has dismissed rumors that the band’s 1990 power ballad “Wind of Change” was written by the CIA as a piece of Cold War propaganda. Klaus Meine appeared on SiriusXM’s “Trunk Nation” where he explained that a reporter contacted him for a podcast investigating the mystery surrounding the epic anthem. The …