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Illustration on the current Cold War by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

The new — or perhaps renewed — Cold War

By Clifford D. May

The seal of Central Intelligence Agency is seen in the lobby the headquarters building in Langley, Va., on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Once-secret files reveal new details of CIA’s divisive defector dispute

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A smile and a wave from a Soviet soldier, as his armoured convoy makes its way back to the Soviet Union along a north Afghanistan highway, Feb. 7, 1989. Despite Afghanistan's reputation as "the graveyard of empires," the Soviet Union sent in troops in 1979, quickly assassinating the country's leader and moving to install a compliant successor. More than 14,000 Soviet Army troops died in the conflict that seriously eroded the image of Soviet military superiority. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko, File)

Fallen colossus: USSR’s terror, triumphs began 100 years ago

By Jim Heintz - Associated Press

Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2022

By Bernard McGhee - Associated Press

The Monument to the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascist Invaders falls during its demolition in Riga, Latvia, Aug. 25, 2022. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led to a renewed push to topple the last remaining monuments to the Soviet army that remained in Europe. At the end of the communist era, when Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia regained their independence from the Soviet Union, those countries began renaming streets and toppling statues of Lenin and other communist figures. But many memorials to the Red Army remained. (Kaspars Krafts/F64 via AP, File)

War protest: Statues fall as Europe purges Soviet monuments

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev addresses a group of 150 business executives in San Francisco, Monday, June 5, 1990. Russian news agencies are reporting that former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at 91. The Tass, RIA Novosti and Interfax news agencies cited the Central Clinical Hospital. (AP Photo/David Longstreath, File)

Mikhail Gorbachev, who steered Soviet breakup, dead at 91

By Jim Heintz - Associated Press

In this screenshot taken on Nov. 16, 2021, and released by Chinese People's Association of Friendship with Foreign Countries, Qin Gang, China's ambassador to the U.S. speaks during a video conference call on the 80th anniversary of Flying Tigers Coming to China event in Beijing, China. (Chinese People's Association of Friendship with Foreign Countries via AP) ** FILE **

China is not the Soviet Union, Beijing’s ambassador tells security conference

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

China Cyber Attack Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Biden’s foreign policy weaknesses

By Jed Babbin

China's Defense Minister Gen. Wei Fenghe speaks at a plenary session during the 19th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-la Dialogue, Asia's annual defense and security forum, in Singapore, Sunday, June 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Danial Hakim)

Top Chinese military figure calls sharp nuclear buildup ‘appropriate’

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

People walk past a currency exchange office screen displaying the exchange rates of U.S. Dollar and Euro to Russian Rubles in Moscow's downtown, Russia, Feb. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/File)

Sanctions hit Russian economy, although Putin says otherwise

By Ken Sweet and Fatima Hussein - Associated Press

Ukrainian National Guard, Armed Forces, special operations units exercise as they simulate a crisis situation in an urban settlement, in the abandoned city of Pripyat near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine, Feb. 4, 2022. When fighting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine resulted in power cuts to the critical cooling system at the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant, some feared that spent nuclear fuel would overheat. But nuclear experts say there’s no imminent danger because time and physics are on safety's side. (AP Photo/Mykola Tymchenko) **FILE**

Ukraine’s battlefield success no surprise to their National Guard trainers in U.S.

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Illustration on removing Putin from power by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Biden’s channeled JFK and Reagan in call to remove Putin from power

By Cal Thomas

In this image provided by the White House, President Joe Biden listens during a secure video call with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the Situation Room at the White House Monday, March 7, 2022, in Washington. (Adam Schultz/The White House via AP)

What is Team Biden’s foreign policy?

By Cal Thomas

In this file photo, Sergey Karjakin, of Russia, reaches in to take a white piece from his opponent, Magnus Carlsen, of Norway, in Game 12 of the World Chess Championship, Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in New York. U.S. chess grandmaster Hans Moke Niemann, the target of cheating allegations at the highest level of the game, has made a counter-move against his accusers, filing a $100 million-plus lawsuit accusing world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway, top U.S. grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura and one of the biggest online chess-playing services of "colluding to blacklist" him from competing. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) ** FILE **

Russian chess grandmasters slam invasion of Ukraine in joint appeal to Putin

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing last week. Mr. Yanukovych's visit is aimed at gaining Chinese support for Ukraine's battered economy. The country's economic malaise has helped fuel ongoing protests in Kiev. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Putin’s war tests China’s nuclear pact with Ukraine

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times