It is now official. The growing Cold War style rhetoric between Russia and the West has finally acquired an ideological underpinning - it will be about U.S. new imperialism pushing back Russia's new revisionism.
What changes will this new rhetorical escalation bring to Russia's relations with the West? Why does Putin seem to be looking to overplay the differences with the United States rather than downplaying them? Why is the Bush Administration seeking to push Russia back rather than engage it by showing a degree of understanding for its concerns with U.S. policies? Where will it all end?
