By the Editor – a seismic calamity unfolding that if nothing else is full of lessons – not just for the combatants but for the West across the spectrum from the tactical to the strategic. The author draws strands together after a month of the Russo-Ukrainian war to highlight such lessons that we must urgently consider at the now probable dawn of a new Cold War. Writing to his friend Friedrich Engels in 1863, Karl Marx declared that “… who measures world history by … what he happens to think are ‘interesting news items,’ could regard twenty years as more than a day when major develo…
