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Beyond a New Cold War

The Nation

The threats of terrorism, failed states and civil wars cannot be resolved without respectful collaboration between Russia and the United States, says the former CEO of Procter & Gamble.

By John Pepper

John Pepper is a member of the founding board of the American Committee for East-West Accord (ACEWA), a nonpartisan organization of American citizens from different professions—business, academia, government service, science, law, and others—who are deeply concerned about the possibility of a new, potentially even more dangerous Cold War between the United States/Europe and Russia. The group’s fundamental premise is that no real or lasting US, European or international security generally is possible without essential kinds of stable cooperation with Russia. Pepper is also former Chair and CEO of the Procter & Gamble Company and former Chair of the Walt Disney Corporation. He served as CEO and is currently honorary co-chair of the National Underground Freedom Center and the author of two books, What Really Matters and Russian Tide: Procter & Gamble’s Entry into Russia.

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Are the Major World Powers Blundering Toward War?

The Nation

The US, Russia, China, and others are playing a dangerous game of military provocation. That’s exactly how World War I started a century ago.

By Michael T. Klare

Whether or not we have slid into a “new Cold War,” as claimed by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at the Munich Security Conference on February 13, we certainly have entered a period of escalating provocations, with China, Russia, the United States, and other major powers testing one another’s resolve through a series of military feints. While usually contained below the level of armed combat, these actions—deployment of bombers or warships in or near a rival’s territory, construction of new military bases in menacing locations, aggressive military maneuvers, and so on—naturally invite countermeasures of an increasingly belligerent sort and so increase the risk of war.

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Dmitry Medvedev’s Interview With Time Magazine

Ed: This interview transcript was obtained from the Russian Government News website. As of the date of this CCI post’s creation (Feb 17, 2016), Time Magazine appears to have published excerpts from the interview, and an interpretive summary of the interview, but not the full interview transcript.

Dmitry Medvedev has given an interview to Time magazine correspondent Simon Shuster following the Munich Security Conference.

Transcript:

Question: Thank you very much for agreeing to this interview with Time magazine. I would also like to thank you for your remarks today at the conference. This was a very interesting and eloquent speech. You made a very interesting statement regarding the Cold War that didn’t go unnoticed and became a hotly debated subject here in Munich. However, I would like to start with a different question that has been dominating the news lately and is a topical issue. I’m talking about Syria. Yesterday, President Assad said in an interview that his final objective was to return the whole Syrian territory to his control. My question is whether Russia is ready to support him in achieving this objective, including by military means?

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Why Is America Restarting the Cold War With Russia?

Dana Rohrabacher
The National Interest

Washington’s strategy toward Moscow is outmoded and misdirected.

The president’s new budget proposal for 2017 calls for a 200 percent increase for our military spending in Europe aimed at Russia—perhaps the most provocative step yet in our apparent efforts to encircle and antagonize that country.

Meanwhile, spending aimed at ISIS is to increase by 50 percent.

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