link the simple fact is that this is not a cold war mark ii - far from it. russia with its declining economy is nothing like the soviet union, which aspired to establish a different world order to that pursued by the capitalist west. russia is in many ways a weak country. its leadership has a strong sense of encirclement - a view that the west is only eager to do it down - and, rightly or wrongly, this is driving mr putin's more assertive approach. source the article linked above is the most chilling piece i've read yet concerning the current tensions with russia. the fact it was published by the bbc doesn't help. the article should put to rest a lot of the counter-arguments in recent ww3 threads. that is not good news. the situation is clearly worse than we're being told. edit on 27-10-2016 by profusion because: (no reason given)
bbc: nato sends a message to russia
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