Thirty years after the Berlin Wall fell, Western order faces new strains
by Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
Nov 06, 2019
4 minutes
WASHINGTON - Thirty years after Germans tore down the Berlin Wall, and the Cold War came crashing to an end, the Western order of alliances, disarmament treaties and robust trans-Atlantic relationships is facing new strains.
The fall of the wall in 1989, and the end of the Cold War two years later when the Soviet Union collapsed, opened a remarkable period of relative peace, international cooperation in the West and hope that the emerging Russia and the former Soviet republics on its borders would become stable democracies.
Today those aspirations seem distant; the United States and Britain, the mainstays of the trans-Atlantic alliance, are gripped by crises in Brexit and impeachment. Russia
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