The Cold War, New & Improved!

Soon after the second world war Russia and the USA entered a phase referred to as the Cold War. It wasn’t always cold in fact the aggression against each other was rather profound at times. The blockade of Berlin, the wall, closing of boarders and prevention of travel between countries was just a small part of the events. Later, an arms race, introduction of nuclear missiles into Cuba and on and on it went. It wasn’t until the President Ronald Regan’s continued pressure on the Russian economy through military escalation did their economy collapse causing a splintering of the members of the USSR in such great numbers that Russia was diminished considerably.

For several years we saw Russian premiers struggle to keep the citizens fed and military partly intact, but then rising out of the KBG ashes came a young Colonel that rose to the position of president and the changes started. Slowly at first, but constant. With the recent takeover of Crimea and new calls for reintroduction into Russia by the Ukraine. At face value it was caused to certainly appear that the citizens had voted in support of that referendum but hordes of unidentified Soviet soldiers tipped us off the facts of new soviet efforts at domination and with it we appear to be on the brink of a new cold war. Slightly different, but with the objective still the same: soviet domination of as much of Europe as possible.

In some ways it is less scary. Much of the nuclear arsenals in both countries have been vastly diminished and with new defensive measures and advanced, like todays US Navy announcement of the first (actually we were 2nd on this one) electric rail gun capable of launching a projectile at Mach 7 to a range of 100 miles (note to all, the old rule of one third still applies when talking about military capabilities) but let’s not forget that what started the arms race was the fact that “they got more than us” mentality swarmed through our political circles, prompted by our military circles, driving us toward more and more until at one point it was calculated we could blow ourselves up some 7+ times.

Vladimir Putin is certainly at the center of the controversy but let’s not forget that his advisors, full of old KGB buddies are part of the old hard line political circles. Like our own presidents from the past two decades, those advisors are filled with politicians rather than scientists, captains of industry and others that don’t have the political blinders on. All in all we are once again seeing history repeat itself because those in charge of forgotten or are ignoring history and are bound to make the same mistakes again and again with all of us hanging in the balance. We can only expect to be rescued and pulled back from the brink so many times, then there will come a time when somebody steps over the line and there will be a newer, far more disastrous future we will be forced into.

And of course, now helping prompt it along is this high speed communication we call the internet, which can be used, misused, and further abused by those that would want to manipulate us all for their own gain. We owe it to ourselves, our children, and hopefully our grandchildren to be better educated about these tactics. Not to be so easily mislead into believing so much of the garbage that is being pumped into our living rooms and onto our computers day after day after day.

So, do yourself a favor. Become more cynical about what you hear. Demand proof and evidence; resist those that would proclaim “trust me, trust me” and insist they show you the facts and no matter what, never take anything at face value; that is the fastest way to be fooled and mislead. The day of trusting what you hear has long since passed. Now we must protect ourselves even better and not allowing ourselves to be talked into another war, no matter what.