Cold War 2.0: Why Current Crisis is Far More Dangerous Than 20th Century’s Long Twilight Struggle

Amid the ongoing NATO-Russia proxy conflict in Ukraine, more and more Western media outlets, historians and think tank figures have referred to the crisis as a “new Cold War.” On the anniversary of Winston Churchill’s 1946 Iron Curtain speech, a leading Russian arms control expert explains why the ‘sequel’ to the Cold War is far more dangerous.