“This is a book about a global shock that took Washington by surprise: the revival of superpower conflict,” reads the introduction of New Cold Wars , by Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times journalist David E. Sanger. From the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he writes, there was a sense of certainty that the greatest byproduct of America’s undeniable victory in the Cold War was something like a permanent era of peace among the world’s nuclear superpowers.
Three years into Vladimir Putin’s three-day “special military operation” in Ukraine, the effects of Russia’s continuing illegal and immoral invasion are still reverberating around the world. Putin’s use of military force to further his imperialistic ambitions in Europe has led to a reordering that few international analysts would have thought possible only a short while ago. Review: New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion and American’s Struggle to Defend the West – David E.
Sanger (Scribe) Putin’s “no limits” partnership with the People’s Republic of China has been followed by his embrace of one of the most reclusive, internationally sanctioned regimes in the world: the Russia–North Korea defence pact . China has been supporting and enabling Russian aggression in Europe, while exercising soft and hard power across the Indo-Pacific. A centrepiece of modern Chinese power is one of the largest expansions in military capability in modern hi.