“The reality is that the cold war never ended. It is really still in play, just cooler. It is now warming back up. Might as well get used to it. Otherwise you might go crazy...”
This is pure theater; how do we have a communist president now while they have a capitalist?
Something else you need to understand.
Putin is not, I repeat NOT and western style capitalist, any more then China is.
If he was, he would have cared about how his corporations have faired with these occasional flare-ups of his ego.
Hope you don’t own a Russian stock. They have been having problems for at least the last couple of years.