Anton Bredl’s Reviews > The Lost Peace: How the West Failed to Prevent a Second Cold War > Status Update

Never trust the U.S. in matters of diplomacy - the historical record of duplicity from its diplomats and managers of state knows no boundaries. The indigenous nations know this all too well.

The level of naïveté from Soviet managers during the late 1980s and early 1990s is so baffling it brings forth a palpable nausea.