Cold War II

Meanings

1. The ongoing tensions between the United States of America alongside its European allies and the Russian Federation since the mid-2010s and especially since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022; sometimes called the new US–Russian Cold War.
2. The ongoing tensions between the United States of America and the People's Republic of China since the mid-2010s.
3. The later (mostly 1970s–1980s) phase of the Cold War.

Etymology

A numbered instance of a specific cold war after the previous one, the Cold War (1945-1991); a similar numbering happened for a specific instance of a world war after the previous one, the World War (1914-1918), which since World War II became known retronymically as World War I.

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