Ideology returns to war and peace

Asad Latif

THE Russian incursion into Ukraine resumes the ideological rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that was suspended at the end of the Cold War.

As the second Cold War begins in all but name, it is helpful to remember the provenance of the first one. It began at the cessation of World War II, which had united the dominant democracies of Britain and the United States with the Soviet Union, in spite of their ideological differences, against Nazi Germany and its fascist allies because they threatened both democracy and communism simultaneously.