A map of Europe during the Cold War. Photo: Shutterstock. Thirty years ago today, on August 19, 1989, thousands of Hungarians and Austrians gathered at the border fence between the two countries ...

If you look at the map of Europe in the medieval or early modern period, ... It’s a map of dizzying incoherence, which reflected a Europe in conflict. During the Cold War, it was a very simple map.

During the cold war, the USSR was also much more closed off. Only about 3% of its GDP came from exports, and over half was to other Warsaw Pact countries. Russia is significantly more open now ...

Why the United States Failed to Retrench from Europe during the Early Cold War . July 19, 2024. Why the United ... Rick talks with TNSR author Joshua Byun about how American attempts to leave Europe ...

Nonetheless, the echoes of the Cold War are growing louder. Mr. Biden himself added to the din this week. In Vilnius, Lithuania, on Wednesday night, addressing a crowd that was waving American ...

The U.S.’s new cold war policy has therefore tended to produce chaos in Europe. In light of this, there are now signs some major European politicians do not wish to continue down this course.

The European Union announced an ambitious goal in early 2023 of shipping 1 million 155mm artillery shells to Ukraine by the end of the year, setting aside $1.1 billion to compensate countries for ...

The US Army alone saw its presence in Europe fall from about 300,000 troops during the Cold War to about 30,000 today. Bases were shuttered, and units were withdrawn or deactivated.

U.S. Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli, NATO’s supreme allied commander and head of U.S. European Command, said some 90,000 allied troops are slated to take part in Steadfast Defender.

With a potential Cold War-style missile crisis looming, Europe is being drawn into another arms race. Whether to follow the US into the vortex of military confrontation with Russia or to build a ...