THE BEAR AND THE EAGLE Shadows of The Bear and The Eagle loom With freedom’s rise and old tyrannies’ doom And so The Bear stumbles, the tyrannies fall While The Eagle soars to the people’s call As to their tug of war, now decades old But such a history there to be told Shylock – Extract from next book, later this year. The truth about the Cold War is, it never ended. Google three words “The Cold War” to learn about the different phases of the Cold War over the Period 1947 to 1991. I know it sounds good to my friends on the Right to say, “Reagan won the Cold War without firing a single shot” and that is true to a point because the shots weren’t fired at the Soviet Union per se but they were shots fired in Viet Nam by the USA for example and through other Third Parties in other regional conflicts during the period above. The current phase of the Cold War has been fought over Georgia’s and Ukraine’s intentions to join NATO and move further into Europe’s orbit since the end of the last phase 1991, to the chagrin of Russia. And since then, Putin has successfully annexed parts of Georgia and now a part of Ukraine to boot! He stymied us at the UN over Iraq, Iran and Syria during this phase as well. He has also gotten us to abandon plans for a missile defense system in Europe etc. In short, we are losing this phase. Shylock
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:53:51 +0000
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