“But,” Logevall says, “if we’re talking more generally about a cold war, if we mean a titanic struggle that involves all aspects of national power waged between two incompatible systems but short of outright military conflict - then yeah, I guess this is a cold war.” “If we’re talking about a capitalized Cold War, I don’t think I could call this Cold War II,” says Fredrik Logevall, professor of history and international affairs at Harvard and Pulitzer-Prize winning author most recently of “JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956.”
and its European allies have enacted crippling economic sanctions on Russia - which Biden on Tuesday extended to Russian crude oil - while still drawing the line on military engagement with Russia. In repudiating Putin’s invasion, the U.S. The largest land conflict in Europe since World War II, Russia’s two-plus weeks of war in Ukraine has rallied Western alliances like few events before it. “We are in a second Cuban Missile Crisis in many ways in terms of the danger of escalation,” says Hershberg, whose books include “Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam.” “Putin is acting so irrationally he makes Nikita Khrushchev appear like a rational actor in comparison.” A Russian strategic overreach, Hershberg says, is again sparking a potentially perilous moment in international order. But in a crisis that pits two nuclear superpowers on opposing sides, history is repeating in other ways.
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