Cold War II

Cold War II link (Polarising perspective, strategy of tension, conflict)
File:Cold war 2 mirror.png A Mirror cover cited by the Harod Associates' Operation Iris report into the role of social media in influencing public perceptions about the Skripal Affair.
A rebooting of the original Cold War, that was definitely tied to the UK deep state in late 2018.

The Cold War II (or Cold War 2.0) refers to a reprise of the first Cold War which ended in 1990. The reboot has gradually gathered pace and intensity since at least the early 2000s, and swung into high gear after the 2014 coup in the Ukraine. The basic narrative, like the original cold war, is of a "West versus East" conflict, cited as increased reason to increase military spending and increase control over one's own population.

In recent years, increasing efforts appear to have been underway to promote Cold War 2.0 through Russophobic messages in commercially-controlled media.

Background

Encirclement of Russia

The encirclement of Russia is a tactic by the United States, utilizing NATO, to place military capability (not necessarily through many soldiers or equipment) close to the territory of Russia.

US exit from the ABM Treaty

Full article: US/Nuclear weapons

The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (1972–2002) was an arms control treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems used in defending areas against ballistic missile-delivered nuclear weapons. It was intended to reduce pressures to build more nuclear weapons to maintain deterrence. Under the terms of the treaty, each party was limited to two ABM complexes, each of which was to be limited to 100 anti-ballistic missiles. In 1997, five years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, four former Soviet republics agreed with the United States to succeed the USSR's role in the treaty. In June 2002 the United States withdrew from the treaty, leading to its termination, citing risks of nuclear blackmail (ie threat from smaller nuclear armed states).

Russia took this unilateral decision as the reason the exit from the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START II would have come into effect at the time) and warned that this decision would trigger a new arms race.

2008 Russo-Georgian War

The 2008 Russo-Georgian War was a war between Georgia, on one side, and Russia and the Russian-backed self-proclaimed republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, on the other in the strategically important South Caucasus region. It took place in August following a period of worsening relations between Russia and Georgia. It is regarded as the first European war of the 21^st century. Georgia was armed with all kinds of western weaponry and received training from external advisors.Template:Cn Shortly before the war, a deal about Israeli Merkava tanks was cancelled, or refused (depending on the account).

2013

In November demonstrations and civil unrest began in Ukraine. The protests were sparked by the Ukrainian government's sudden decision not to sign the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement.

A reappearance of the Woodpecker signal has been reported by radio amateurs worldwide. According to Globalsecurity.org, it is the new Russian OTH radar system Kontayner with an estimated range of 3000 km.

2014

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Time magazine on the 4^th August 2014.

Full article: 2014 Ukraine coup

Full article: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

2016

Russia restarted it's Soviet era civil defense exercises in 2016.

A 2016 film was entitled Cold War II.

2018

In March 2018, following the attack on Sergei Skripal, AP introduced a story "From Washington to Warsaw, Western nations banded together Monday to expel more than 100 Russian diplomats they accused of being spies." Dan Kaszeta published an article for the Integrity Initiative entitled Demolishing the Kremlin's absurd theories about Novichok and Porton Down in which he attacked theories that challenged the UK Deep state's official narrative.

China

Full article: US-China trade war

The encirclement of China has been called as an extended division of this trend. China (and in particular their Belt and Road Initiative) has been the target of several IfS, NATO and US Congress members their lectures, such as Sijbren de Jong and Tom Cotton.

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“The United States remains the world’s leading power with global interests, and it cannot afford to choose between Europe and the Indo-Pacific. Instead, Washington and its allies should develop a defense strategy capable of deterring and, if necessary, defeating Russia and China at the same time.”
Matthew Kroenig, Atlantic Council (February 18, 2022) 

Although the Cold War 2.0 concept was originally formulated with Russia in mind, China has emerged as a focus of the US Deep State. Controlled media focused on China's rapidly structural influence in technology, even being responsible with their state companies such as Huawei for securing European governments their vital ministerial departments.

As a result of the shutdown of many parts of the global supply chain, Taiwan came under scrutiny for being the de facto sole supplier of computer chips (or semiconductors specifically) for a wide variety of products.

Shortages for every product requiring computer chips, tariffs by the US & EU and increased tensions surrounding Taiwan and Hong Kong, caused prices for computer chips and similar components to skyrocket, making the world extremely dependent on a rapid recovery of the Chinese (or Asian) economy. During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine China aligned with Russia by increasing imports to counter an economical recession of the Russian economy and not voting for a military response in the UN Security Council.

Cold War Then and Now‎‎?

Full article: Cold War Then and Now‎‎?

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Advertising for an event at the Institute for Statecraft.

Cold War Then and Now‎‎? was a conference on 13 October 2018 that was booked by Simon Bracey-Lane of the Institute for Statecraft, later to be exposed as a Russophobic disinformation outfit controlled by the UK Deep state, funded by the UK/FCO and the UK/MoD.

Groups

Institute for Statecraft

Full article: Institute for Statecraft

Edward Lucas of the Economist underlined the importance of these links in his books Deception and The New Cold War. Speaking at the Frontline Club in London in 2014, he said that no significant Russian company can operate without a licence from the state in the form of bribes in one form or another; that comment should be extended to the major criminal groups.

Integrity Initiative

Full article: Integrity Initiative

On 5 November 2018, 'Anonymous' leaked documents about the Integrity Initiative which used funds from the UK/FCO and the UK/MoD to promote anti-Russian disinformation by coordinating "clusters" of apparently independent journalists.

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