Former Soviet chief Mikhail Gorbachev, 83, said on the 25th anniversary of the dismantling of the Berlin Wall that the world is on the cusp of returning to a new Cold War.
“The world in on a brink of a new Cold War,” he said, the New York Daily News reported. “Some are even saying that it’s already begun.”
Mr. Gorbachev faults the United States and Western allies for embracing what he termed the “euphoria and triumphalism” after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and said ill feelings have grown from there, the New York Daily News said.
“To put it metaphorically,” he said, the news outlet reported, “a blister has now turned into a bloody, festering wound. We must make sure that we get the tensions that have arisen recently under control.”
• Cheryl K. Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.
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