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Bringing back the language of the 1950s and '60s, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says the strained relationship between his country and the West could be described as "a new Cold War."
Speaking Saturday at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Medvedev said he sometimes found himself wondering whether this was 2016 or 1962.


"NATO's policy with regard to Russia has remained unfriendly and opaque. One could go as far as to say that we have slid back to a new Cold War," Medvedev said. "Almost on an everyday basis we are called one of the most terrible threats either to NATO as a whole or to Europe, or to the United States."...Russian President Vladimir Putin has been accused of trying to undermine the unity of NATO, particularly with the destabilization of Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea. Putin has announced that will add more nuclear missiles and build a new generation of non-nuclear ones that could strike U.S. soil.

This is no time for a principle member of NATO to be backing down...Britain certainly should not rattle the saber but the hand needs to rest on an imposing hilt. They certainly defended the Falklands-this is considerably more serious! Lack of preparedness or perceived lack thereof as much as outright aggression (Ukraine -to recreate the Stalinist buffer- or South China Sea island creation) can lead to outright hostilities similar to Hitler's retaking the Rhineland. Once again the 'have-nots' are on the march; We ruined the twentieth century; I'd really like to exit the 21st on a higher plane... http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/13/europe/russia-medvedev-new-cold-war/