March 2014
The Russian Bear Still Has Teeth Laina Farhat-Holzman
Many of us miss the Cold War, not because it was without violence (there was, but nothing like that of the two World Wars), but because the antagonist was so interesting. As Churchill once said, “Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” But perhaps it is not as mysterious as we thought then. We only need look at its geography and history to see inevitable continuity---an eternal Russia.
Another reason for preferring the Cold War’s Russia to today more...