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Sunday, August 27th, 2017

Trump and Putin Are Leading New Nuclear Cold War Between West and Russia, Foreign Minister Says

Author:     Greg Price
Source:     Newsweek
Publication Date:     8/26/17 at 1:02 PM
 Link: Trump and Putin Are Leading New Nuclear Cold War Between West and Russia, Foreign Minister Says
Stephan:   Having served in the Department of Defense during the height of the Cold War, and having had an informed sense of what a Cold War means, I cannot adequately convey to you how distressing I find this story. We have a madman -- I mean that literally not figuratively -- at the helm of the nation and things I never thought I would hear or read again I am now hearing and reading. What is particularly concerning, and the reason I picked this particular piece, is that it is the English account of a German piece.  This is how others now see us. It is my view that Trump is using international stress like a shiny object to draw the media's attention away from the many legal inquiries into him and his family. But he is so ignorant and clumsy, such an inept geopolitical player, that this could easily get out of hand.

A new Cold War, including an increase in nuclear arms, is brewing between the Western world and Russia with three top world leaders at the forefront, Germany’s foreign minister said in an interview published Saturday.

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Sigmar Gabriel, Germany’s top diplomat, told German newspaper Bild that a new “ice age” has started and said that U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s means of keeping and attaining power were responsible.

Gabriel said each leader views the world “as an arena, a battleground…This is a dangerous development.”

He also called for Germany to stand against what he called a “new phase of nuclear rearmaments,” and criticized sitting German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party for lashing out against former Chancellor Gerard Schroder’s links to Russia businesses.

Merkel is currently leading polls and expected to win a third term next month when Germany holds elections.

Gabriel’s comments came as relations between the U.S. and Russia have been described by diplomats and other leaders as at a low point and deteriorating. Each […]

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