Can America fight two Cold Wars at once? home/Opinion/Op-Ed Columns/Can America fight two Cold Wars at once? How did the United States, triumphant in the Cold War, find itself beset on so many fronts? Second, by extending our NATO alliance deep into Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Baltics, thereby igniting a Cold War 2 with Russia. The question, then, for our time is this: Can the US pursue a Cold War policy of containment against both of the other great military powers, even as we maintain our Cold War commitments to defend scores of countries around the globe?

Source: Manila Times December 19, 2018 00:22 UTC