I’m familiar with the Soviet Union. What does their policies have to do with Russia’s policies today?
Russia is Russia and they cause trouble all over the world.
The USSR was Russia, that is why Russia holds the USSR seat at the UN and why you guys keep counting the USSR and Russia as the same in treaty discussions going back to when they called themselves the USSR.
Currently, they have invaded Ukraine and threatened America and Europe with nuclear war.
“I’m familiar with the Soviet Union.”
No, you’re not. Had you been so you’d have known of its involvement in the Korean War and the Vietnam War, instead of making the utterly absurd comment that it never challenged the US.