Russian PM Medvedev Equates Relations With West To A 'New Cold War'
Source: CNN
(CNN)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."
Tensions between the West and Russia have increased in recent years, in large part -- at least in the view of the West -- due to Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and its support for separatists elsewhere in eastern Ukraine.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/13/europe/russia-medvedev-new-cold-war/
How's that eastern expansion working out for you now NATO?
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)...because of Russian BS. But keep on pushing that Russian propaganda about NATO.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)pleased to see that Russia is taking a firm stance against NATO expansion and the judeo-christian crusades that has been systematically destroying the Middle East.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Bernin
(311 posts)Obama's legacy!
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)newthinking
(3,982 posts)This time looks much more risky and this time there is a lot of money (MIC corporations and individuals in the MIC get rich from the system).
Our posturing is much more dangerous than it may seem. Even during the 1st cold war there serious "accidents" almost happened.
Running a game of "chicken" back and forth (both sides) pushes societies further into irrational behavior. This is a very dangerous period
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)Why most countries in Eastern Europe still don't want to go back to the good old days of complete Russian domination, I don't know...
polly7
(20,582 posts)OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)But we also need to put some blame on the Administration, which keeps saying that we need to do TTIP to save Europe from Russia.
trillion
(1,859 posts)But yes, the US has worked hard to make sure we are right back into a cold war.