A Disaster of Our Own Making
Weichert, Brandon J In 1991, the Cold War ended in a bloodless victory for NATO. After 70 years of a grueling, nuclear-tinged Cold War, communism was dead, Eastern Europe was free, Russia looked to the West for how to build a better, freer future for itself, and liberal democracy and capitalism reigned supreme. But in the ruins of the last war lies the seeds for the next great conflict. Floating just beneath the surface of post-Cold War international relations wa...