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Russian Prime Minister Medvedev summons in the conflict with the West old formulas. Does he even know yet what he is talking about?

“We are plunged into a new Cold War” said at the weekend in Munich the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The federal government, the historical analogy back, but Image know why Russia is losing him, the new Cold War, and the enlightened contemporary caught himself thinking, beautiful bout yes, if we had him. Then would Putin and Obama on an aircraft carrier or in Vienna or elsewhere to meet, talk and tidy care in the world.

Munich Security Conference Medvedev speaks of a “new Cold war”

at the Munich Security Conference, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says you had slipped back into a new Cold war. US Secretary of State John Kerry calls on Russia to stop air attacks on the moderate opposition groups in Syria.

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But that was Medvedev well not when he proposed his definition of the current situation; a definition by the way, which of course ascribes the role of a superpower Russia. New Cold War – that should in Munich probably point mainly due to the antagonism between “the West” and Russia, an opposition that has already been overcome. Implies the phrase also an invitation to agree again over the heads of Poles, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians and Ukrainians away? And at whose expense?

Belongs to Medvedev’s definition of location in the old Cold War naturally included threat of a life-threatening for all escalation? The answer to these questions can be left to the Kremlin astrologer, a species that it still exists.

For decades fascinated Soviet ideas masterminds

In this Cold War the Soviet Union had from the first to the last day an ideological tenders you could take seriously. It changed from Soviet Marxism of the fifties through to the “new thinking” of short perestroika years, when it so seemed suddenly seem to just want to and listen to each other and -. The world would be more peaceful, happier, free

For decades fascinated Soviet ideas masterminds in the west, they could hot Picasso or Theodorakis or Marcuse. read Marx to study revolution stories was even then not in vain if the decision was against the revolution and Marxism. And today? Would you voluntarily take the anti-liberal thinker Alexander Dugin note if this would not accused of a certain influence?

Russia offers today Propaganda appetizers, Eurasia with anxiety before-gay sauce. This takes place at right Lousy Petern and left wiseacres consent, but remains unattractive, a dreariness of post-ideological age.

Neither Russia nor “the West” seems to restore peace in the location

The new Cold war would be a propaganda techniques alone, including one of the secret services, but unlike the “good” old little debate of philosophers, artists, intellectuals. Is it at all to speak of the new Cold War because neither Russia still seem to be “the West” will be able to restore peace and to secure order. Also, both together is not.