Hillary Clinton is calling for a no fly zone over Syria. In 2011, she did the same in Libya, through an official UN resolution. But what did Team America proceed to do instead? The no fly zone was designed to circumvent Gaddafi's own aircraft - while the US proceeded to bomb the territory, in clear contravention to the UN resolution, killing Gaddafi with the use of a drone. Not this time Hillary - not this time. ussia and the West have entered a new Cold War that could lead to growing confrontations across the globe, as Vladimir Putin challenges American international hegemony.

That is the consensus among military and foreign policy experts in Moscow, who have warned that Russia and the West are headed for a standoff as dangerous as the Cuban missile crisis.

“If we talk about the last Cold War, we are currently somewhere between the erection of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile crisis,” said Lt Gen Evgeny Buzhinsky, a former head of the Russian ministry of defence’s international treaties department and now head of the PIR centre, a Moscow think tank.

“In other words, teetering on the brink of war, but without the mechanisms to manage the confrontation.”

The Russian foreign ministry on Saturday accused the Obama administration of attempting the “final destruction of relations with Russia”.

Sergei Ryabkov, a deputy foreign minister, said Moscow would retaliate in kind if the United States goes ahead with new sanctions against Russia in response to the bombing of Aleppo. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/22/unyielding-russia-and-us-heading-for-a-new-cold-war/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/21/russian-carrier-plagued-by-technical-problems/