Last year, a report from the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that funds the State Department warned, “Whether the administration recognizes it or not, Russia, [China], Iran, and other illiberal adversaries are engaged in a cold war against the United States.” . ..…

Russia’s war against Moldova’s neighbor Ukraine seemed not only to raise the geopolitical stakes in Moldova, but also to raise de facto ruler Vladimir Plahotniuc’s “sale” value to those from whom he sought external legitimacy and financial assistance: Washington, Brussels,..…

The U.S. has secretly continued the old “Cold War” after the Soviet Union’s end, though no longer on an ideological basis (since Russia is no longer communist). ... If the United States really had ended its side of the Cold war after the 1991 termination of the USSR, and of..…