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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.Alexei Druzhinin / Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images Michael De Groot, Indiana University As Russia masses forces and equipment on Ukraine’s border, international tensions over a possible invasion intensify almost daily. Ukraine has emerged as ground zero of what some pundits have dubbed a new Cold War between Russia and the West. In my view as a Cold War historian, this comparison distorts the Cold War and misrepresents the stakes of the current crisis. Yet reviewing the Cold War is important becau…