The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of Communism in Europe was probably inevitable, given the inability of the Communist system to compete economically with the West. We now hear that communism was ‘unsustainable’ and I largely agree, but at the same time I don’t think it was inevitable that the Berlin Wall [Read more...]
Amid the handshakes between US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev lies a more fundamental question, namely can their two countries ever truly be friends? Or will bilateral relations forever be defined through the legacy of the Cold War?
Both sides regard each other with a high degree of suspicion, even 20 years [Read more...]
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