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Brussels (AFP) - President Joe Biden arrived in Europe Wednesday on a mission to bolster Western unity and ramp up unprecedented sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and brutal bid to upset the post-Cold War balance of power.

First female secretary of state writes that ‘Putin must know that a second Cold War would not necessarily go well for Russia’

The weakened West might now have found a cause to unite strongly around liberal democracy, writes Oliver Hartwich

The US and the UK also did plenty of nefarious things during this period, 88-year-old Milton Leitenberg tells Andrew Buncombe

Hours after Russian missiles first struck Ukrainian cities on Feb. 24, German naval commander Terje Schmitt-Eliassen received notice to sail five warships under his command to the former Soviet Republic of Latvia to help protect the most vulnerable part of NATO's eastern flank.

Some 20,000 people attended an anti-war concert in central Berlin on Sunday, police said, with listeners waving Ukrainian flags or holding banners with slogans opposing the Russian invasion. Gathering near the Brandenburg Gate, symbol of a divided Germany during the Cold War, many performers wore shades of blue and yellow…

Many African countries remember the Soviet Union as an ally — and the U.S. as a backer of thugs and tyrants

Roughly half the U.S. population has little or no memory of the Cold War. Which is good; life ought to be lived without the existential dread of mushroom clouds.

Whether it actually worked during the Cold War remains debatable, but even if it did it’s unlikely to do so in future, writes Maria Rost Rublee