You whole post is BS. Russia never came to terms that it lost the Cold War. Its bitter. It didn’t hesitate to take western welfare, like supporting its space program and allowing it to join ISS. All the time just waiting to let the bully reemerge.
Lol. ISS was built around Russian technology to start with.
Regarding Cold War, the problem was that the West didn’t accept Russian surrender as kept pushing. It couldn’t continue forever.
They were bitter, but they were bitter for reasons. The link explains those reasons. And those reasons continued through the first two decades of this century because of the U.S.’s involvement in Ukraine.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-russia-nato/
Lol. ISS was built around Russian technology to start with.
Regarding Cold War, the problem was that the West didn’t accept Russian surrender as kept pushing. It couldn’t continue forever.