America’s new Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said in a follow-up to Mr. Putin’s speech, “As an old Cold Warrior, one of yesterday’s speeches almost filled me with nostalgia for a less complex time. Almost..” He added: "One Cold War was quite enough."
At the end of July, the secretary-general of NATO, Mr. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said, "Nobody wants a new Cold War, neither the Russians nor NATO, nobody.” He urged Russia to abandon its "confrontational" rhetoric and join the Western allies to combat the common threats of terrorism and failed states.
Judging by Russian activities last week, it is not clear that Mr. Putin is listening.
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