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Russia’s Cold War Habit

Mikhail Gorbachev has accused the US of dragging Russia into a new cold war, in an effort to "realize its general triumphalist idea.” But the current antagonism between the US and Russia is nothing new, and, like past confrontations, it is almost entirely Russia's fault.

MOSCOW – A few weeks ago, Mikhail Gorbachev – the last leader of the Soviet Union and the man who did more than anyone to end the Cold War – told the German newspaper Bild that it is possible “to recognize all the features of a new cold war in today’s world.” The United States “has already dragged” Russia into it, Gorbachev has said, in an effort “to realize its general triumphalist idea.”

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