
By Murray Brewster, CBC News, July 11, 2016
Canadian troops to be Baltics ‘tripwire,’ but experts wonder what goes boom
There is something NATO — and more importantly Canadian officials — want you to understand about the rising tensions with Russia: This is NOT your grandfather’s Cold War.
In fact, throughout last weekend’s Warsaw Summit they were really skittish about anyone drawing any comparisons to the nearly half century long standoff between East and West, which brought the world to the precipice of nuclear annihilation.