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@ixaos In the sense that it's the same geopolitical opposition that we've seen for decades in one form or another?
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@NinaByzantina yes and no. If compare Cold War w today, there's striking difference: 1. No clear rules; 2. No more ideology aspect; -
@NinaByzantina 3. Most important. If previously it was 2 equal players, now it's one attacking and other merely defending. It's one-sided. -
Not quite. The global containment doctrine was Truman's, as USSR was in ruins; the partition of Berlin was initiated by the US, etc.
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@NinaByzantina don't see your point here. You think balance is equal now as it was? Cold War distinction was soft struggle of 2 equal powers -
@ixaos I'm saying that it took decades to reach any sort of parity after 1945, and that the Cold War wasn't initiated by the USSR. -
@NinaByzantina both points debatable. Soviets acquired nuclear power very quickly/occupied East Europe -
See Eisenberg, Drawing the Line: The American Decision to Divide Germany; Zubok, Pleshakov Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War, etc.
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