‘Cold War, Part 2’: How Putin is dragging America back to the bad old days

Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a document recognizing the independence of separatist regions in eastern Ukraine in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. | Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP

Welcome to the new Cold War. And like the last one, strap in for a long and costly military and diplomatic duel with the Kremlin.

On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin officially recognized the independence of breakaway regions in Ukraine’s east, areas that Moscow has functionally controlled since 2014.

The nearly hourlong speech had all the hallmarks of former Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev’s finest: a winding, one-sided treatise about

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