Tag: Cold War

Increased power, perhaps counterintuitively, appears to breed increased fear of weaker competitors. This can trigger preventive action such as foreign interventions that, to outsiders, may look illogical.

[T]he growing presence of Russia, China and Iran in Latin America is becoming a serious national security threat to the United States.

The liberal world order is officially over.

[T]he erosion of the post-1945 international rules is real and alarming, but so far enough people still remember why we made them in the first place.

[A]verage Americans do not care whether other countries are democratic or autocratic. What matters to them is that they keep their jobs.

Countries that cherish democratic values need to take a stand against the president-elect’s throwback to unabashed American expansionism.

[P]erhaps the world is facing a new era of … Mutually Assured Destruction, only a different style.

Camp David represented Carter's personal peacemaking triumph.

Through continuous endeavors ... Beijing has been cast as the foremost threat to U.S. national security.

[T]he Cold War is no longer a battle of values but an undisguised battle of national interests.

[T]he U.S. nuclear umbrella brings danger, not security, to Japan.