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# Back to the old Cold War game
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/back-to-old-cold-war-game/
- Published: 2013-05-29T09:05:27.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-16T19:33:32.000Z
- Description: With the upcoming lifting of the arms embargo for Assad regime opponents in Syria we are back to the old game: Cold War - the USA and the former Soviet Union both offering advanced weapon systems to the belligerent parties (visual montage).
- Author: Tjebbe van Tijen
- Tags: Middle East & North Africa, #Migrated, United States & Canada, United States, Syria, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 17:36, #ImagesUploaded

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Ugly and murderous times when local populations were squeezed to death between heavily armed forces in what became more than "just civil wars": Korea, Vietnam, Angola and Afghanistan to name a few, the Cold War lasted from the fifties to the eighties of the last century. We are also reminded of the aftermath, the missile crises of Cuba and Egypt - with Syria being equipped with missile capacity by the Russians, from the Khrushchev to the Putin era. This, as a deterrent against Israel being equipped by the Americans.