Monday, March 03, 2014

I just read an article in The New York Times that early on used the term "Cold War" with respect to the current crisis in Ukraine. Curious, I scanned the article for other uses of the term and found one more.   I searched for "Cold War" on Google, under "news" and filtered the search for the last 24 hours:

19,304.

19,304 uses of the term "Cold War" in the news, in the last 24 hours. 

No. Friends and enemies, this is not the Cold War. It's just not. Maybe it's not that bad, I don't think it is, maybe it's worse, I doubt it, but better or worse, it's not the same. It just isn't. The Soviet Union, like, doesn't exist anymore. That's what's called a "fact." The Cold War was with the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was communist. Russia is not communist. You can't have the Cold War without the communist Soviet Union. That's a fact, you just can't. I don't know if we, Official We, have to figure out what this is, beyond the obvious facts on the ground, an invasion of Ukraine by Russia, but if we do!, if we do have to figure out what this is beyond the obvious, these 19,000 news articles are not going to help us figure it out, they're going to get Us on the wrong track because this is never going to turn out to be the Cold War! Period, there...Exclamation point, rather. Paragraph. I am Benjamin Harris, this is Public Occurrences, and this is not the Cold War. Thank you. End of post.