Ronald Reagan would roll over in his grave hearing stuff like that.
A totally false analogy as Russia and the USSR are not the same thing. Punishing Russia and shrinking it to a rump state like that bunch wants would require the USA to fight them. Reagan was not going to open hostilities. His policy was to force the Soviet Union to collapse without fighting.
Yes, they are the same thing. Both are predatory aggressive regimes corrupt, bent on widening their borders, totalitarian and completely evil. It's the character and personality of the nation that describes it and not the slogans. Whether it is Czarism, Communism or Putin's oligarchy it is ail the same just different slogans. Russia is the most dangerous country in the world today and the one that will have to be dealt with in the future and it not going to end well.