[dkopi]

Which part do you consider an opening act of a cold war? Launching a cyber attack in a foreign country - or arresting someone who launched a cyber attack?

[elsewhen]

to be truly accurate, it is _allegedly_ launching a cyber attack.

[dllthomas]

I read it as "opening act of a political struggle", where the struggle is of "cold war era" style.

[CiPHPerCoder]

All of the above, really. I meant act in a literary sense, not as in "one specified unit of verb".