Why one of Russia's top foreign policy experts is worried about a major war with Europe

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Thursday, May 7, 2015

Why one of Russia's top foreign policy experts is worried about a major war with Europe Updated by Max Fisher on May 6, 2015, 

During the Cold War, when Europe became a political battleground between the Soviet Union and the Western powers, the stakes were no less than the future of the world. It wasn't just a struggle for Europe's ideological alignment; it was a virtually bloodless military rivalry, in which both sides rallied ever more armies and nuclear warheads to prepare for a war that, had it ever come, would have left the globe in ashes.
We think of that time as over, and in many ways it is. But the Ukraine crisis has renewed elements of that contest over Europe.http://www.vox.com/2015/5/6/8540063/russia-europe-war