Are We In A New Era Of The Cold War?

Take a step off the ledge my friend.
And no.

The Cold War was/is a farce to keep the War Machine in motion $$$$$

We've always been at war with Eastasia

I think Trump and Putin are just having some fun messing with each other. Kind of like the presidents of the top two frats doing the same at the expense of the rest of the inferior frats and the GDI's.

Just because it involves the U.S. and Russia having geopolitical tensions doesn't make it comparable to the Cold War. Call me when the Communists takeover Russia and start clamoring for the global workers revolution and then we can start talking about a new era of the Cold War. Until then it's just contemporary geopolitics.

Every waking second we are at war with someone, mainly China and Russia. War is just different than before. Every major player has the nuclear weapon threat, but nobody wants to use one because the other would retaliate.

Cyber warfare
Economic Warfare ( think currency manipulation, oil prices, and sanctions)
Socio-political warfare ( notice the rise in rebel groups? CIA does that)

These have replaced storming beaches and rolling tanks across the desert. It's easier and cheaper to do and in many cases takes a greater toll. We are at war 24/7

I remember reading in a history of the Civil War that two large forces of the South were within 5 miles of each other when a battle started between one of those forces and the Union.

The force not involved in the battle never joined. It didn't even know a battle had started. Couldn't hear what was going on.

We think 5 miles or so isn't a long way because we drive that distance so quickly. But, walk a straight distance of 5 miles and you'll realize that that's not really "close by". Drive 5 miles away from Tiger Stadium when it's full and a rivalry game is being played. You don't have to be 5 miles away before you can't even hear that a game is being played.

Like I have already stated in this very thread, I am not trying to compare the Cold War from the 40's-80's to whatever the frick it is going on now. What I'm asking is does this feel like a different era of it? Never once tried to compare it to the one everybody knows about.