Heading for Another Cold War?
Edward Lozansky leaning on piano at the Russian Cultural House in Washington D.C. during the World Russia Forum (May 2008).
Edward Lozansky, senior advisor to Discovery Institute's Real Russia Project and the President and Founder of the American University in Moscow, participated yesterday on the discussion panel "Are the US and Russia Heading for Another Cold War?" on the National Public Radio's program "To the Point." Other program participants were: Paul Rimple (Reporter, Christian Science Monitor), Janusz Bugajski (Director of the New European Democracies Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies), and Steve Clemons (Director, New America Foundation).
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God in heaven, why now a second Cold War? Didn't we learn enough from the first?
With international terrorists threatening both Russia and the U.S.--indeed the entire civilized world--wouldn't it be wise for the two nations to find common ground, even if that common ground be the same sort of tenuous bond we painfully forged 67 years ago?
In my youth, Moscow aided North Korea in a war of naked aggression against UN forces, invaded Hungary, and ultimately armed and equipped North Vietnam while invading Czechoslovakia in the second half of the 1960s. Fifty years ago I was convinced that the USSR was, as Viktor Suvorov described it, "...a modern-day Genghis Khan," and yet, given the American and European myopia and mis-intelligence concerning contemporary events in Georgia, I have to believe Russia the aggrieved entity while the West the saber-rattler.
Perhaps I'm guilty of dementia due to advanced age. Condoleeza Rice, a supremely intelligent woman in possession of advance degrees in Soviet studies from one of our finest universities, spoke with quavering voice on American television only this afternoon, and appeared entirely out of her league in addressing the latest instance of bloodletting in the Caucasus. Not a reassuring moment in this latest hour of crisis.
Well, speaking of Condi, (why) would she deny that Stalin was a Georgian, not a Russian? Who were the main beneficiaries of Communism if not Georgians (remember the chrnie rynki?) Anyway, criminologists know the truth, let's forget the dead discipline we once knew as "Sovietology".
Besides, I thought the State Dept was supposed to be in favor of anti-corruption measures- well time will tell.
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Lois DuPey
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A second cold war? I never thought the first one never ended. Things did change, to be sure.
Russia came to a point where it looked like it might take one path, then they turned back. Now the politicians are more preoccumpied with robbing the country than in expanding communism.
Condi Rice is completely out of her league.
Bush should declare that the G8 is now the G7. It can be up to the other 6 to decide if it is Russia who is out, or the US.
It is not international terrorists that are threatening the world dear R.L. . It is RUSSIA AND USA themselves that are threatening the world , My dear friend R.L. . Benladen was created by usa.Castro was created by soviet union . Islamic republic regime was created by usa my dear friend R.L. . I gusse you dont like history very much , Do you ?? By the way , dont forget usa part in creating terrorist groups my friend.