sometimes we even reject them with irritation. Especially if they lead to unpleasant findings about ourselves. This also applies to the challenges with which the new cold war confronts us (and will continue to confront us).
Admitting certain facts is therefore a necessary condition for us to be able to do something meaningful with our situation. Also, to be able to avoid worse scenarios in favor of more tolerable ones. And as we know: both in war and in politics, it is always about imperfect scenarios, that is, as a rule, about the possibility of greater or lesser evil. But let’s get things straight.
non-obvious achievements
If nothing else, it is the war in Ukraine that shows that a new cold conflict with a long-term perspective is back, and ripe. What characterizes this new round of global confrontation? What does it resemble and what does it differ from the previous one?
That previous Cold War may look simpler compared to our situation today. Of course, it can be an appearance: everything seems simpler in retrospect than for contemporaries at the time. I also remind you that even the outcome of the previous Cold War was not as obvious or even predetermined as it may seem to us today from the position of the generals after the battle. (In the 1950s, Henry Kissinger, who was relatively little known at the time, aptly pointed out in his book: “It is the nature of successful politics that posterity forgets how easily things could have been different”.)
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