![]() Two points, I have told my audiences, are particularly apt.įirst: Keep your adversary guessing. faces today - including the standoff in Ukraine. Nevertheless, there are lessons from the Cold War in general, and the Cuban missile crisis in particular, that could usefully be applied to the foreign-policy challenges the U.S. Even given all the troubles around the world, we face nothing like that today. and the Soviet Union, along with many tens of millions elsewhere around the globe. By bowing to pressure from his hard-liners and sneaking intermediate-range nuclear missiles into Cuba, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev set off a chain of events that could easily have led to a war that would have annihilated both the U.S. The Cuban missile crisis was a unique moment in human history. As I’ve traveled this month to promote "Back Channel," my novel about the Cuban missile crisis, audience members have peppered me with questions about what they see as the dawning of a new Cold War. ![]() So have some Russian commentators: “Russians Will Suffer in Putin's New Cold War,” warns the opposition Moscow Times.Īpparently, lots of people in the U.S. ![]() International observers have done so, too. No doubt he’s right - but commentary on the Ukraine crisis has continued to embrace the Cold War analogy anyway. In announcing new sanctions on Russia last week, President Barack Obama was at pains to insist that the standoff over Ukraine doesn't mark the beginning of a new Cold War. ![]()
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