New Cold War
I'm a child of the Cold War. I was a kid and then
teenager in those heady days. Fear was there, it was real. A tangible thing.
Like being aged 13 and telling an adult to fuck off. But a million times more
deadly. Potential of war, World War 3, was off the scale. East v West in a
dizzying game of Armageddon. Quite a party. Everyone invited, no party poopers
here. Early November 1983, NATO did Operation Able Archer. A Command and
Control exercise. The Soviets thought it was real and got ready, just in case.
Missiles armed, bombs near jets. Now thirty plus years later, my scary old friend is back. I'm thrilled and
terrified. It's amazing and surreal. Russia annexing Crimea like Nazi Germany
in the late 30s. What next? Massed military forces moving into Ukraine proper?
NATO beefs up her defences; radar planes in Poland and Romania, extra fighters
in the Baltics. More Russian jets in Belarus. Up and up it goes. Worse crisis
since the Cold War. When America switches focus from the Middle to the Far
East. What next in our New Cold War?
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