World has enough troubles without a new Cold War
In a sign that the Donald Trump administration is hellbent on reviving the Cold War, the US Navy held a ceremony at Norfolk in Virginia on Friday for the re-establishment of its US Second Fleet which will be responsible for naval forces along the East Coast and in the northern Atlantic Ocean.
The fleet was created in the 1950s primarily to counter the former Soviet Union's military activities on the Atlantic Rim, before it was disbanded in 2011 as part of the Pentagon's cost-saving plan. The decision to resurrect the outdated structures of the Cold War will only exacerbate tensions with Russia.
The move cannot but make people wonder why the United States is so intent on reviving the great power rivalry that kept the world on the brink of nuclear Armageddon for so long. Does Russia really pose a bigger threat to US citizens than terrorist groups such as al-Qaida?
