[happygrl]

You are correct in comparing this situation to the Hungarian uprising in 1956 with regard to the Russian response.

Weakness at that juncture led to more proxy wars until the so-called dissolution of the USSR in 1989.

[reg45]

The Russians have learned that the best time to make a move is when America is preoccupied by elections and/or military activity elsewhere.

• Berlin - 1948
• Hungary - 1956
• Cuba - 1962
• Czechoslovakia - 1968
• Georgia - 2008