Doyle McManus: Welcome to Cold War 2.0. It won't be easy
by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Feb 28, 2022
3 minutes
No matter how Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine ends, it already marks a turning point in history: the end of a 30-year period of relative peace in Europe and a return to hostility between Russia and its neighbors — a kind of Cold War 2.0.
If we're lucky.
The first Cold War, from 1947 until 1991, divided the world between two hostile blocs. The United States and the Soviet Union reached the brink of nuclear war at least three times, most famously in
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