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When we hear the term Cold War, our minds immediately jump to grainy footage of the Berlin Wall, spies in trench coats, and the constant, chilling threat of nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. But if we look at today’s headlines, it is clear that if we are in another cold war, it looks absolutely nothing like the last one. Think of a cold war not as a single historical event, but as an ideal type of geopolitical standoff. It is a deep, durable political confrontation where major powers fight for order and influence, but—crucially—they stop short of a direct hot war because the cost of mutual destruction is simply too high. Back in the twentieth century, that standoff was defined by two rigid, opposing blocks.

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