Russia, China and the New Cold War

Wall Street Journal - Opinion Page ^ | March 18, 2022 | Adam Oneal

[Wuli]

Matt Pottinger, an architect of Trump’s security strategy, sees Ukraine as analogous to Korea, a ‘hot opening salvo’ in a global conflict between the free world and a bloc of dictatorships.

...snip... Is this [the war on Ukraine] the summer of 1914, with great powers stumbling into a horrific global conflict? Or is it the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939? What about Moscow’s 1939-40 Winter War against Finland? ...snip ...

....snip... Mr. Putin’s attempted conquest, and his burgeoning partnership with China’s Xi Jinping, reminds Mr. Pottinger of the Korean War. “In 1950, Stalin and Mao and Kim Il Sung badly miscalculated how easy the invasion would be and miscalculated American resolve, much as we’re seeing today,” ...snip...“The roles are now reversed, with Xi playing the role of Stalin and Putin playing the role of Mao sending his troops to the slaughter. ...snip....

...snip... Although the Cold War began in 1945, “it really took several more years for public attitudes in the West to catch up to what strategists like Winston Churchill and George Kennan knew about the nature of the Soviet Union.” With the Korean conflict, “the Cold War crystallized in the public imagination in the West.” Today, it’s “really hard to avoid the conclusion that these developments reflect a new cold war that Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have initiated against the West.”

...snip....

The logic of the Cold War “will provide us with explanatory and predictive value. It’ll help us understand and anticipate the moves by Putin and Xi and the other dictatorships that play supporting roles in their global strategy, such as Iran,” he argues. “We would be remiss not to learn lessons from the original Cold War, not least because we won.”

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Mr. O’Neal is a Europe-based editorial page writer for the Journal.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Again, what free world?

[blueunicorn6]

Even our foolish college professors now know that communism is baloney.

Russia, China and North Korea justified the attack on South Korea to the rest of the world by claiming that South Koreans really wanted communism.

Putin, as far as I can see, isn’t trying to justify his attack with some pie in the sky philosophy.

[gw-ington]

Russia, China and the New Cold War

I really do hope things work out well for the U.S. Yet, I believe that Putin & Xi are certain this is the perfect time to pull all their stunts. Is anyone surprised that all of this is happening just after senile Sleepy Joe's handlers entered the Oval Office? Suddenly it's all about, What will Putin do next? What will Xi do next? What will Kim of North Korea do next? What will ... etc. Do the befuddled Democrats/RINOs have any clue why all of this never happened during the Trump Administration? Think about it, clueless Democrats/RINOs ... I'll wait .............................

No ideas, Democrats/RINOs? I thought not. Here's a little clue for ya ......

[gw-ington]

But don't worry because senile Sleepy Joe is, by far, "the most popular U.S. President ever," with over 81 Million votes, in "the most secure election in history!" And the 2020 election was NOT stolen! AAAAAARRRGH!!%!@#&!! We SWEAR! .....

[alexander_busek]

Again, what free world?

The Free World that upholds the values of the Enlightenment, Aristotelian Logic, Constitutional principles, Equal Treatment before the Law, Human Rights, Western Civilizat... er, maybe you're right to wonder.

Regards,

[RitaOK]

Priceless.