Cold War II

"Headline: "I Knew the Cold War. This Is No Cold War""

"Headline: "Putin's New Cold War""

"The military/security complex has resurrected its Cold War enemy so necessary for its outsized budget and power and intends to keep Russia as The Enemy. The Democrats have an interest in the villification of Russia as “Russiagate” explains Hillary’s loss of the 2016 Presidential election and gives Democrats hope of removing President Trump from office. The media lacks independence, knowledge, and integrity and is the tool used by the military/security complex to control explanations..."

"As strategic and Russian studies are largely funded by the military/security complex, the universities are also complicit in the march toward nuclear war. Republicans are as dependent as Democrats on funding from the military/security complex and the Israel Lobby."

"All of this self-serving is driving America and its vassals to war with Russia, which might also mean with China. The war would be nuclear and be the end of the West, an act of self-genocide. The US national security establishment is so crazed that Trump’s efforts to get off the war track and onto a peace track are characterized as treason and a threat to US national security."

"The Russians are aware that the accusations and demonization that they experience are fabrications. They no longer see the problem as one of misunderstandings that diplomacy can overcome. What they see now is the West preparing its populations for war. It is this perception for which the West is solely responsible that makes the situation today far more dangerous than it ever was during the long Cold War."

"From "Is the Cold War Back?" by Eve Conant, National Geographic (12 September 2014)"

"A directionless administration in Washington is giving allies and adversaries the jitters by seemingly putting in place all the ingredients for the start of a Second or a New Cold War just precisely when the world was looking at ways to strengthen ties economically and commercially."

"Russian policy towards Ukraine since late 2013 in this sense also indicates that actual and latent conflicts in Eastern Europe have entered a qualitatively new and more dangerous phase, frequently described as a new Cold War yet far from the hegemonic stability that then prevailed in this part of the world."

"Calling twenty-first-century great-power tensions a new Cold War therefore obscures more than it reveals. It is a kind of terminological laziness that equates the conflicts of yesteryear, which most analysts happen to know well, with what takes place today."

"Coordinated response will not start a new Cold War between Russia and the West. It will restore guidelines and common expectations about future behavior in a more complex international system than existed during the Cold War."

"This appears to be one of the beginnings of a second Cold War, which we have been seeing so many manifestations of around the globe in the recent decade."

""Welcome to Cold War II" by Dmitri Trenin in Foreign Policy (4 March 2014)"

""As Cold War II Looms[...]" by Nikolas Kozloff in Huffington Post (15 October 2015)"

""We’re on the road to a new Cold War" by the Washington Post editorial board (31 July 2017)"

""Travel Barriers Are the Worst of the New Cold War" by Leonid Bershidsky in Bloomberg (1 September 2017)"

""White House backs UK in Russia crisis as Cold War Two looms over Salisbury poisoning" by Richard Hartley-Parkinson in Metro (15 March 2018)"

""The New 'Cold War' With the West Heats Up" by Pavel Felgenhauer in The Jamestown Foundation website (15 March 2018)"

""Russia v the West: Vladimir Putin's new cold war" by Daniel McLaughlin in The Irish Times (29 December 2018)"

""Venezuela crisis: Putin's new Cold War on America's doorstep?" by Nathan Hodge in CNN (2 February 2019)"

""Cold War 2.0? Russia suspends nuke treaty after US decision" in The Times of India (3 February 2019); original: Associated Press"

""The New Cold War’s Warm Friends" by Chris Miller in Foreign Policy (1 March 2019)"

"Headline: "How Comrade Trump Unleashed a Cold War in America""

"The US is a force for division, not for cooperation... It's a force for trying to create a new cold war with China. If this takes hold - if that kind of approach is used, then we won't go back to normal, indeed we will spiral into greater controversy and greater danger in fact."

"The US lost its step on 5G, which is a critical part of the new digital economy. And Huawei was taking a greater and greater share of global markets... The US concocted in my opinion, the view that Huawei is a global threat. And has leaned very hard on US allies... to try to break the relations with Huawei."

"Do I believe that China could do more to ease fears that are very real? I do.... The big choice frankly is in China's hands. If China is cooperative, if it engages in diplomacy, regional cooperation and multilateralism…. then I think that Asia has an incredibly bright future."

"Headline: "The new cold war: are we going back to the bad old days?""

"There is a new Cold War starting."

"It looks like a new Cold War between Russia and the West is inevitable[...]"

"The current 'cold war' is a fight for the very soul of international order: a US-led Liberal rules-based international system or a Russia-led illiberal system of authoritarian regimes."

"[...] a second round of the cold war may ensue as a punishment for leaving many issues unsolved"

"The post-cold war era is over, and a new era has begun. Cold war 2.0, different in character, but potentially as menacing and founded not just on competing interests but competing values."

"What could be called an autocratic bloc is provoking, through territorial expansion and destabilizing nuclear development, an interrelated set of conflicts developing in the direction of a New Cold War between autocracies on one side, and democracies on the other."

"The drive to put more sanctions on Russia might feel good. But fueling a new Cold War can only propel the United States in the wrong direction."

"We are in a new Cold War."

"The Second Cold War, begun when we moved NATO to Russia's borders and helped dump over a pro-Russian regime in Kiev, is getting colder."

"Is the Cold War back?"

"Experts in Russia agreed that Putin was sending a very blunt message to the Trump Administration—if Washington wants a new Cold War, Moscow is up for a rematch."

"They have wasted three decades, focusing primarily on advancing their own narrow interests just as they did during the Cold War, and in the process only paved the way for, well, another Cold War."

"No, it's not [the start of World War III]. The real question is whether it's the start of Cold War II. The answer may depend on the longevity of [[Vladimir Putin|[Vladimir] Putin's]] regime."

"The feels like the beginning of a new Cold War. Only this time, the global enemy is authoritarianism, not communism."

"We should also pay attention to those who warn against plunging into a new Cold War as a knee-jerk reaction, without consideration for what happens next."

"Marco Rubio: (referring to the US) "[...]barreling toward the second Cold War." ()"

"[F]irst, the two presidents [Putin and Donald Trump] must publicly come clean regarding the 2016 election campaign. Otherwise, there will be no breakthroughs, and Cold War Two will continue with no end in sight."

"We are starting a new Cold War. We seem to be sleepwalking into this new nuclear arms race. [...] We and the Russians and others don’t understand what we are doing. I am not suggesting that this Cold War and this arms race is identical to the old one. But in many ways, it is just as bad, just as dangerous. And totally unnecessary."

"My point of view is that the individuals that have said that a new Cold War has started are not analysts. They do propaganda."

"There's no question we're in a new chapter of the Cold War with Russia."

"The only ones applauding the decision to tear up the [[w:INF_Treaty|INF [Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces] Treaty]] are the nuclear weapons manufacturers, eagerly anticipating the kickoff of Cold War II."

"Just in case nobody has noticed, Cold War II has begun."

"Fred Halliday, in The Making of the Second Cold War (1982, ), in reference to the later phases of the original Cold War."