Relations between Russia and the West approached the point of no return. Another wave of anti-Russian sentiments against the backdrop of the "case of Skripal" is an extremely disturbing symptom. Despite the absence of an ideological conflict between our country and the West, as it was in the times of the USSR, there are all signs of a "cold war". 0 ". The first and most important sign is the expulsion of Russian embassy employees, the "Free Press". The initiative of London was supported by almost three dozen countries. Diplomatic conflicts of this magnitude were not even in Soviet times.
The second sign is information warfare. Western countries at the highest level spread fables about our country and accuse it of all sins, although there is no evidence of Russia's involvement in the poisoning of the former GRU colonel with his daughter or in interfering with American elections. The efforts of the Western camp are aimed at turning the Russian Federation into mass consciousness into an "empire of evil".
The third sign of the new cold war is sanctions. They are a tool for fighting the times of the Iron Curtain. For example, in 1974. The famous Jackson-Vanik amendment was adopted, restricting trade between the USSR and the USA. Or Ronald Reagan's embargo on the supply of pipes for the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline in the early 1980s.
The fourth sign is the correspondence between Russia and America in regional conflicts. Under the USSR, the same was in Korea, in Angola, in Vietnam, in Afghanistan. Now came the turn of Syria and Ukraine. At the same time, NATO troops are actively increasing their presence at Russian borders.
The last, the fifth sign - the arms race. The US military budget has recently been increased to an unprecedented figure of $ 700 billion (for comparison, Russia's military budget for 2018 is $ 46 billion). Washington requires NATO allies to increase spending on defense to 2% of GDP.
"The US and Britain are trying to initiate a new cold war. That is, a certain "crusade" against Russia. But since there really is not a collective West, the English, who understand this, want to consolidate it on the basis of the notorious Russian threat, "said Konstantin Blokhin, senior researcher at the Center for Security Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
According to him, "this new cold war does not need many normal countries of Old Europe". "And of course, if we oppose the whole of Europe at once, then we only consolidate the West," the expert believes..
A key role in fomenting the new cold war is played by the US president's administration, in which "hawks" and neocons gathered. Trump himself does not hide that he wants to go down in history on Reagan's principle "Peace Through Power". At the same time, the American leader was largely hostage to the situation, I am sure Blokhin. He did not have his own human resources. "In the previous administration of Obama ruled by Democrats, and he needs to draw from the republican human resources. And the administration of the last President-Republican Bush Jr. was all neo-conservative, "- explained the expert.
Previously, Trump was threatened with impeachment, if only he did not draw closer to the Russian Federation. Now this goal has been achieved, the head of the White House behaves quite harshly towards our country, and nothing threatens his political future.
The beginning of a new cold war "will spur the formation of a new bipolarity".
"On the one hand, the so-called collective West will remain the center of power, and the Anglo-Saxon core will constantly try to consolidate it. For this western center, for understandable reasons, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Another block is the New Eurasia with a core of China-Russia, around which will be formed Greater Eurasia. And I think that with its rhetoric, America and Europe will just further stimulate the design of this center of power, "concluded Blokhin.