When does a new Cold War begin..?

Question

with conventional wars it starts with either side dropping a bomb or firing a gun, what happens in a 'Cold War'? who decides when it will start?

Answer 1

Already here, there printing up the Tee Shirts right now!

Answer 2

When each decides it does - when 2 opposed systems get toe to toe without shooting at each other - getting very very chilly at the moment - not quite there but getting damm close.  Alexander the West does not hate Russia or fear it - we are confused by it - by it's actions we now want Ukraine and Georgia to be part of NATO - much faster than before - what will Russia do if NATO Troops are stationed in the Ukraine or Georgia ?  Attack us ?  Threaten Poland ?  (the Pole have reason to fear Russia - given that the Soviets and n***s attacked it while the West stood against Hitler)  World War 2 Started long before Germany attacked Russia - or have you decided to re-write history ?

Answer 3

its kinda a trick questionwhen i did research it had two starting points and two end points the earliest starting point was like 1943 and latest end point was 1989. go to my link it helped alot but its still unclear when but i think the second starting point was in the 60's

we basically won ebcuase we out spent them for we had a stronger econamy.

Answer 4

Cold War starts when we decide to build a bigger bomb, then an opposing country will build theirs bigger, then we'll have to build ours even more bigger!  Same analogy, but with other variety of weapons such as firearms, submarines, aircrafts, tanks, etc...

They try to compete who will have the better and baddast advanced weapons.

Answer 5

When one side antagonises the other with a big stick of some sort and goes "Not touching, can't get mad!"

And the other side retaliates by getting a bigger stick and saying the same thing.

This goes on for a while until one side gets really p*ssed and uses said stick to whack the other one up side the head.

Now, replace sticks with nuclear weapons.....

(Umm...can I just ask why myself and the guy above me are getting thumbs down for giving the correct answer?....tis strange, no?)

Answer 6

A true Cold War starts when two or more countries differ on an issue and a Hot (shooting) War has not started. Thousands dies in a Cold War, so it is a misnomer.  

Answer 7

Russia made off participating in "cold war" in 1989. This was not a military defeat. Simply very much people in Russia got tired  to live in poverty in order that their country will the strongest and mighty in the world. They trusted that the USA and western countries  also would give up a colonial imperialistic policy. And all people of the world will live in a friendly manner, as a family. But the western world, in place of that to accept Russia in the complement of the their family, the predatory feral grin rotined. Taking advantage of temporal military weakness of Russia, US and its sattelites from the countries of NATO decided to size the whole world, to put on knees and destroy Russia as independent state. They sickked on Russia the gang of semicivilized barbarians and degenerative "civilized" peoples, which resident on the outskirts of our country. We are people of good will, opponents of slavery and any oppressing of man by a man - can not allow you, predators, to guzzle with plucks all humanity and to destroy us ourselves. We do not want new "cold war". We do not attack other countries. We protect and try to collect together our Motherland which was humiliate and explode by sale politicians-betrayers  (such as your frigging Gorbachev which sold and destroyed a Motherland for the Nobel premium in million dollars, as your protege and marionette -  stupid-head animal and alcoholic Eltsin, which was a big grief for an own country and jester of the whole world).  History again proved us and whole world, that it is better to live in poverty, but to be strong, clever and independent people, instead of  to live as mean slaves which got fat from food garbages from the table of boss.  

For "New Russian" bourgeois (which rob our country and outlay the milliards of folk roubles on the drunkenness,  purchase of the real estate abroad and entertainments, through fault of which starve to death, perish from a poverty and illnesses every year millions of Russians), there is ready already a gallows. Horse-radish to you, but not human rights. It is not people. You want it or does not want, but Russia again will be great power. Push your cold war in your arses. We are northern people, we will outlive easy also in new cold war period.

And, can be, you feel that you are able to do "hot war" with Russia? You are strong only then, when you fight with a weak enemy. Go to Russia and you know as armies of Napoleon and Hitler were destroyed. Braggarts, you forgot already, that just the Russian army took Berlin three times in history and had a parade of victory in Paris.

Answer 8

Don't confuse "a cold war" with "The Cold War".  The Cold War" was deadly serious business that lingered from the late 40's until the "wall" came down in 1989.  The Soviet War Machine was nothing to be trifled with!  In Central Europe, the Bear had us out numbered and out gunned by a ratio of about 7 to 1.  Not to mention the Nuc and Chemical aspects.The proud troops who served in Europe know how deadly serious this was.  I pray that the Soviet Union does not rekindle into its former self.  With the current, anti-war, leftist, hate America movement in our country, it could!

Answer 9

Winter, when its colder.

Answer 10

never mind a cold war the real shooting one might start yet the russians have already threatened poland with a nuclear missile if it allows the us to build it's missile site there