It's a phrase that had a very specific meaning. Today it's used everywhere as a way to tamp down fear.
I am not "hung up" on it. I think that it's important to point out as strongly as possible that as Stephen Cohen said before he died, "тАЬWe are not at the beginning of a new Cold War, we are well into it,тАЭ Cohen says, тАЬwhich alerts us to the fact 'hot war' is imaginable now. ItтАЩs unlikely, but itтАЩs conceivable тАФ and if itтАЩs conceivable, something has to be done about it.тАЭ
That's my belief too. You headline says, "catastrophe in Ukraine", not "could lead to a nuclear war with Russia". My take was that the "catastrophe" in question would be a "new cold war".
Otherwise it is a great article. I only said what I said to make my point, which I make all the time, and that is as I said, that the world is in imminent grave danger. That where we are is not on the brink of a dangerous, but familiar, "cold war".
Please take my very brief comment in the spirit and intention that it was made.
It could go nuclear at any moment.
Cold war? Stop saying that.
The headline literally tells you that's *exactly* what I'm saying. Maybe don't get so hung up on two words in the piece you don't like?
It's a phrase that had a very specific meaning. Today it's used everywhere as a way to tamp down fear.
I am not "hung up" on it. I think that it's important to point out as strongly as possible that as Stephen Cohen said before he died, "тАЬWe are not at the beginning of a new Cold War, we are well into it,тАЭ Cohen says, тАЬwhich alerts us to the fact 'hot war' is imaginable now. ItтАЩs unlikely, but itтАЩs conceivable тАФ and if itтАЩs conceivable, something has to be done about it.тАЭ
That's my belief too. You headline says, "catastrophe in Ukraine", not "could lead to a nuclear war with Russia". My take was that the "catastrophe" in question would be a "new cold war".
Otherwise it is a great article. I only said what I said to make my point, which I make all the time, and that is as I said, that the world is in imminent grave danger. That where we are is not on the brink of a dangerous, but familiar, "cold war".
Please take my very brief comment in the spirit and intention that it was made.
Sorry if I read you wrong.
Thanks.