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Is Putin Performing a ‘Crazy Ivan’? A New Cold War Stirs

The term ‘Crazy Ivan‘ was made famous by Tom Clancy’s first novel – ‘The Hunt for Red October‘ – published in 1984 and the subsequent blockbuster movie starring Harrison Ford and Sean Connery.
The term, as called out by Sonar Operator Seaman Jones [Courtney B. Vance], is (or was) used by the U.S. Navy to describe [...]

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