International security

More Alarming News From the Fronts of the New Cold War

Many American policymakers and leading pundits continue to deny there is a new Cold War, apparently because they would have to explain their complicity in the policies that led to it since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, instead of simply blaming Russian President Putin. The possibility that Finland—whose neutrality during the preceding Cold War benefited both sides and Finland itself, and has been suggested as a model for present-day Ukraine—may join the new Cold War against Russia through a bilateral security treaty with the United States, indicates, as Cohen has long argued, that the new rendition may be even more dangerous.