Rick Rozoff: US, NATO Prepare for New Cold War

Though infrequently acknowledged, the current historical period remains what it has been for a quarter century, the post-Cold War era. Beginning in earnest in 1991 with the near simultaneous disintegration of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, instantaneous in the first case, comparatively slower in the second, only complete with the independence of Montenegro in 2008, the bipolar world ended with the demise of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact and the nonaligned one with the fragmentation of Yugoslavia, a founder of the Non-Aligned Movement. The dissolution of the two nations, the only both multi-ethnic and multi-confessional countries in Europe, was accompanied by violent ethnic conflicts often reinforced by religious differences. In Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo. the South Caucasus, the Russian North Caucasus and on the east bank of the Dniester River. In many instances, in Serbian-majority areas of Croatia and Bosnia and in Transdniester, memories of World War II gave rise to legitimate fears of revanchism among populations that recalled the death camps and progroms of Adolf Hitler's allies in the early 1940's and witnessed the recrudescence of the ideologies, the irredentism and the political trappings that gave rise to them. Transdniester refused to become part of post-Soviet Moldova as it foresaw both states being reabsorbed into Romania. Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Adjara, parts of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, didn't desire to be included in the Republic of Georgia and majority-Armenian Nagorno-Karababakh adopted in a similar approach to post-Soviet Azerbaijan. The above are collectively known in certain circles as the frozen conflicts in former Soviet space.