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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Albert Mohler: Reemergent Cold War Dynamics
Description: Vladimir Putin’s government has arrested a major Western reporter, in this case a reporter for The Wall Street Journal—Evan Gershkovich—who was taken into custody on Thursday of last week. Now of course Gershkovich was accused of being a spy—that’s as old as the old Soviet playbook. Those who have a memory of the Cold War know that that’s exactly what took place routinely during the years of the Soviet Union under the context of Soviet Communism. You had Western journalists repeatedly arrested. They were held on charges of espionage and spying...