The Ghost of Helsinki: How We Let the World Sleepwalk Into Chaos
Cold War diplomacy is dead.Not fading. Not fraying. Dead. And in its place? A vacuum—wide, volatile, and ready to explode. Fifty years ago, in July 1975, the world’s leaders gathered in Helsinki, haunted by the wreckage of two world wars and the shadow of nuclear annihilation. Thirty-five nations signed a pact—the Helsinki Final Act—designed not…