: The original Cold War ended long ago. Is the world heading into a new Cold War? #IndiaNEWS The political and territorial equations during the Cold War were far simpler than what they are today. Then,

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The original Cold War ended long ago. Is the world heading into a new Cold War? #IndiaNEWS
The political and territorial equations during the Cold War were far simpler than what they are today. Then, two formidable armed camps fought for supremacy. The nuclear deterrent prevented “hot� wars between them, though many proxy wars were fought in other lands. As both camps realised that a nuclear war guaranteed mutual destruction, a modus vivendi for coexistence was evolved.However, the scene changed adversely for the Soviet Union when it was dismantled, when its numerous constituent republics separated, when the Red Army was dispersed and its arsenal divided. The West exulted that capitalism had triumphed. The USA briefly reigned supreme as the sole superpower.Within a decade of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the world saw the USA’s unprovoked invasion of Afghanistan in search of Osama bin Laden. The war against terrorism continued into the third decade with the USA making overtures for peace to its dreaded foe, the Taliban. Many more Afghans have been killed and displaced, and large portions of the infrastructure destroyed during 2001-2021 than during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.Not content to unleash havoc in Afghanistan, George Bush and his mentors, Rumsfeld and Cheney, with a cooing Blair in tow, decided to depose Saddam Hussein so...Read more

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