Cold War

There are many misconceptions about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) that is being negotiated between the United States and the European Union, says Charles Ries, vice president of the Rand Corporation.

The Lithuania Tribune/EN.DELFI TV spoke with Charles Ries, Vice President of RAND Cooperation. We asked the Vice President to compare and contrast the Cold War and the current situation in the world

Since Russia began its illegal military intervention in Ukraine, Russian officials have accused NATO of a series of provocations, threats and hostile actions stretching back over 25 years. NATO's official webpage nato.int sets out the facts.

The Western countries are unable to properly respond to Russia's aggressive policies, because they are "rich enough to afford the luxury of believing that [they] can take a vacation from history, and ignore the permanent reality of human violence and conflicting, zero-sum interests," according to Ho...

In October, the Swedish Navy, after several years of calm, once again mounted an operation to identify and avert under-water intruders operating in Swedish territorial waters. Media speculated wildly about the reasons why anyone (read Russia) should have a reason to conduct an operation in the Stock...

It is an emotional return to Checkpoint Charlie for former U.S. soldier William Guenther. He was posted in Germany in the 1970s. It's his first trip back since then, but he remembers the fall of the Berlin wall like it was yesterday.

Declassified US records show that American intelligence agencies recruited former Nazis, including a Lithuanian collaborator, to spy on the communist bloc countries during the Cold War, the BBC reports.

While Sweden's army is looking for what it suspects is a Russian submarine spotted in the country's waters near Stockholm - a situation reminiscent of Cold War incidents - Lithuania must monitor the Baltic Sea, above and underwater, as it awaits the arrival of its LNG Terminal's storage unit.

As Russia's intervention in Ukraine seems to be entering a lower-intensity stage and reports are coming in about ceasefire agreements, both international and Lithuanian media are indulging in discussions on who are the winners and the losers of the conflict.

Throughout the conflict in Ukraine, Poland has tried to use competition between Russia and the West to advance its own interests, which include pulling Ukraine further into the Western camp and pushing for stronger NATO commitment to bolstering Poland against Russia. However, Poland will be limited ...

Two weeks ago commentators were hyperventilating about a return to the 1930s in Europe, following a Russian invasion-of-sorts into eastern Ukraine.

Alea iacta est. NATO has agreed on the formation of a special ‘spearhead force’ (officially: Very High Readiness Joint Task Force) that, if necessary, will offer the eastern member states (additional) protection against Russia’s imperialist whims. After twenty years of peace keeping operations and c...

NATO leaders have a lot to talk about at this year's summit in Wales, expected to be the toughest since the Cold War ended.

The United States and Russia entered a new and more dangerous phase of their pseudo-Cold War this week.

Paradoxically enough, it is during the term of the US president who thought Europe's security system a done deal and insisted on a "reset" in relations with Russia that Lithuania and other Baltic states will finally become full-fledged members of NATO.

This year, during the month of July, the Central and Eastern European Coalition (CEEC), met with California U.S. congressman Adam Schiff and the U.S. Governor of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), Matthew Armstrong, to exchange thoughts on Russian inspired and supported armed conflicts and t...

Moscow’s sanctions will cause greatest problems to Lithuania, not Poland or other countries. This is because Lithuania’s business engine is based on exports to Russia, said Edward Lucas, editor of The Economist International Office, in an interview to Info TV.

For a past week, to talk about the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian relations objectively became quite a self-indulging activity. The debate itself is toxic, since, according to the opposing camps, any affection to the Palestinian cause turns one into an anti-Semitic, terrorist-loving, revanchist bastard...

While Ukraine is spreading joyful news about liberating settlements during new anti-terrorist operations, the Russian plan to turn this country divided into mutually confronting parts into the territory of chaos is collapsing.

Eduard Shevardnadze, the last foreign minister of the Soviet Union and onetime president of Georgia, died Monday. Shevardnadze had not been active in politics since his ouster as president during the Rose Revolution in 2003. However, his time in politics marks two critical periods of transition in g...