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Sweden To Boost Defence Spending $30 Bn Over A Decade

Sweden will increase defence spending by about 300 billion kronor ($30 billion) over the next decade, the prime minister said Wednesday, calling it the nation's biggest rearmament push since the Cold War.

International Business Times

Putin wants US ‘recognition’ of Russian gains in Ukraine: Historian

Russian-British historian Sergey Radchenko talks to Al Jazeera about Moscow’s desire for status on the world stage.

Al Jazeera

Are spheres of influence making a comeback on the international stage?

While the concept lost some of its relevance at the end of the Cold War, it is back in the spotlight with the return of Donald Trump and the war in Ukraine.

Euronews

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Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB spy who defected to the UK in the Cold War, dies at 86

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to the UK, has died at home in England.

Euronews

KGB defector and Cold War spy Oleg Gordievsky dies age 86

Top KGB defector and Cold War spy found dead at home aged 86

The Independent UK

Oleg Gordievsky: the spy who helped avert a nuclear war

The ex-KGB officer’s intelligence was crucial to Margaret Thatcher’s contacts with Mikhail Gorbachev, whose rise to power helped end the Cold War.

Evening Standard

Top KGB defector and Cold War spy found dead at home aged 86

Code-named Hetman, Oleg Gordievsky was one of the Cold War’s most important spies

The Independent UK

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Top KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky dies aged 86

Code-named Hetman, Oleg Gordievsky was one of the most important spies of the Cold War.

Evening Standard

Oleg Gordievsky, Britain's most valuable Cold War spy inside the KGB, dies at 86

Former KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky has died aged 86 in England

The Independent UK

Newly released JFK assassination files reveal more about CIA but don't yet point to conspiracies

Newly released documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 are giving curious readers more details Wednesday into Cold War-era covert U.S. operations in other nations but didn’t initially lend credence to long-circulating conspiracy theories about who killed JFK

The Independent UK

Why Crimea is coveted by both Russia and Ukraine - and the role it plays in the war

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to retake the Crimean Peninsula after Russia’s seizure exactly 11 years ago

The Independent UK

Nuclear deterrence: can Britain and France take on America’s role in defending Europe against Russian aggression?

European doubts about deterrence predate the current US administration. Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and its growing reliance on nuclear coercion to ward off Nato support, brought the importance of nuclear weapons to the foreground again for the first time since the cold war.

The Conversation

The US military has cared about climate change since the dawn of the Cold War – for good reason

In 1957, Hollywood released “The Deadly Mantis,” a B-grade monster movie starring a praying mantis of nightmare proportions. Its premise: Melting Arctic ice has released a very hungry, million-year-old megabug, and scientists and the U.S. military will have to stop it.

The Conversation

The Cold War Broadcasting Apparatus Should Shut Down

Dissidents resisting authoritarian regimes should be independent of the United States—and so should their media sources.

Reason

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The Guardian - US

Republican Russophilia: how Trump Putin-ised a party of cold war hawks

The idea of Moscow as a paragon of Christian nationalism has penetrated the party of Reagan – and the lurch in US policy has huge implications for the global order

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Russell Crowe and Harry Lawtey starring in Billion Dollar Spy

Russell Crowe and Harry Lawtey are set to play leading roles in the Cold War thriller 'Billion Dollar Spy'.

International Business Times

South Korean Pastor Vows Revolt Against Yoon's Impeachment

If South Korea formally impeaches its suspended president over his martial law debacle, one firebrand pastor says he is ready for "revolution".

International Business Times

US Shipbuilders, A Shadow Of What They Were, Welcome Trump's Support

Shipbuilding has been in steady decline in the US since the end of the Cold War but some in the industry now hope for a revival of the sector, as was promised last week by President Donald Trump.

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The Conversation

‘A miracle of Western tenacity’: how 10 million refugees found homes after World War II

A disaster. That was the fitting word for the Europe that emerged immediately after 1945, covered in soot from cities turned to ashes. Life had collapsed.

The Conversation

USAID’s history shows decades of good work on behalf of America’s global interests, although not all its projects succeeded

The Trump administration’s sudden dismantling of nearly all foreign aid, including the work carried out by the U.S. Agency for International Development, has upended the government agency’s longtime strategic role in implementing American foreign policy.

The Independent UK

Elissa Slotkin focuses on economy and national security in Democratic rebuttal to Trump address

‘I'm thankful it was Reagan and not Trump in office in the 1980s. Trump would have lost us the Cold War,’ says Michigan senator

The National (Scotland)

Disaster looms amid nuclear threats on Gaza and Ukraine, international MPs warn

THREATS of nuclear weapons being used in Ukraine and Gaza show the world is closer to disaster than any time since the Cold War, an international…

The Guardian - UK

Putin is not Hitler. His actions in Ukraine are horrific enough to need no exaggeration

Keir Starmer has said we face the greatest threat to our national security since the cold war. Such hyperbole helps nobody, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

I was a cold war courier – the British leftists who smuggled books into the eastern bloc

Letters: In response to an article about a CIA operation, Carl Gardner on tense days travelling to Prague, and David Parker on his father posting letters inserted into the Guardian

The Times of India

Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky dies at 88

The Russian Chess Federation announced on Thursday that Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster, has passed away at 88 years old. He gained global recognition for his historic 1972 match against American Bobby Fischer during the Cold War.

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