No, its worse. The commies had their religion of the “dialectic” and a certainty of victory as promised by their prophets Marx and Lenin.
So, the CCCP commies would push and probe, looking to bring “true communism” one step closer to reality. But they always were ready to cool down for a while and go low profile to avoid a potentially catastrophic showdown. Why push too hard when history is on your side?
This is’nt the Soviet Union any more. Its Russia, pure and simple, playing old school Euro power games. And that school did’nt teach backing off from a bad hand and waiting until later. Simple nationalism is a much less patient and long term goal oriented beast than communism.
It’s back, true. But it’s alot smaller than it was! Haha! We still win.
We should make this deal with russia though...tell them we are going to build all the missile silos in eastern europe we want, but in exchange, russia can do whatever she wants with the balkins...and if we are allowed to have our way in iran without verbal abuse from russia, she can do what she wishes with asia minor as well.
Sounds fair to me.