I have posted in other places that “the Cold War never ended”. I think the evidence points to a hiatus from the Cold War and that it never really ended. This article, by the former Estonian ambassador to Russia, is interesting in that regard.

The Beginning of a New Cold War

When last February the Russian president Vladimir Putin unleashed his chilling attack against America in a speech in Munich, he was really addressing the European Union, or “old Europe” to be exact, and most humiliatingly its most influential state, Germany.

The ambassador concludes:

We need a new Truman doctrine. We need a new “Berlin wall” against neo-Stalinist Russia and its anti-Western allies. This time the Baltics cannot be left to the East of it. ‘Old Europe” has to realize that the attempts at democratising Russia have failed. The efforts at integrating Russia with the West have failed. Only one option remains: Russia, which is threatening world peace, must be opposed through a New Cold War.

And what about my thesis that the Cold War never ended?