The New Cold War redux and its Islamic dimension

[unhappycamper]

http://rt.com/op-edge/160772-new-cold-war-islamic/



The New Cold War redux and its Islamic dimension
Dr. Can Erimtan
Published time: May 22, 2014 14:15

The Cold War is well and truly over, but a new kind of ideological contest is being waged between the West (the US and its allies) and today's up-and-coming superpowers, Russia and China.

This New Cold War once again appears to divide the world into two opposing camps. In one corner the US is furiously attempting to cling to its preeminent role in global affairs (it is only six years since Professor Michael Mandelbaum argued for America acting as the world's government in his polemic The Case for Goliath). In the other, China is casually laying the groundwork for its coming greatness and Russia is securing its immediate neighborhood (or its "near abroad" if you will).



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The New Cold War between the West and Russia has now moved to Ukraine, where the US, operating behind-the-scenes, has successfully escalated a crisis, functioning as a veritable proxy-conflict, that seems to have been motivated by NATO's desire to expand into Ukraine via the EU. A move that would have tremendous consequences for the US Missile Defense Shield, that under Obama differs significantly from the Bush-era missile defense program but still secures a great deal of Russian unease. Anxiety that has led Putin to announce an "S-500 air defense missile weapon system" ready for deployment by "January 2018". Meanwhile the people of Ukraine continue to suffer from the ongoing violence and mayhem, and the propaganda war continues unabated.
The hidden divide

The inhabitants of the Middle East (and the wider Islamic world by extension) appear to be equally subject to the ill-effects of an ideological rivalry, a rivalry of quite another nature however. At least, that is the claim made by the Saudi political writer Abdulmajeed al-Buluwi.

[MisterP]

1. that's very astute, actually: we loved AQ types 1979-93,

dumped them and they turned on us; Hezbollah and "Arab assets" were also created in the Levant through backdoors in the 70s and 80s by Washington and Jerusalem; with OBL dead (?!) we could safely "cycle" AQ and meta-Salafists by supporting them in Somalia and Libya and then turning on it; now the story's repeating in Syria (and any later attack, of course, will be met with "why do these barbarians hate us? and where'd they get these anti-air missiles?&quot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone