Wrong. Russia has been secretly running WWII style animosity ever since the “end of the war”.
I agree
“Russia has been secretly running WWII style animosity ever since the “end of the war”.”
I agree with this, but would expand this beyond Russia to include global Marxism. The fall of the USSR was not the end for them. It was just the signal to switch to plan B. If you want to predict your enemy’s actions, think about what you would do if in their position.
First, you would analyze why you lost the cold war. Conclusion - you lost because of the greater economic power of the West. So how do you counter this going forward? You use capitalism as a ‘controlled’ tool. China has done this exceptionally well. Russia, only to a point - fortunately.
At the same time you work to undermine American capitalism. In this you use counterintelligence people you’ve been working for decades to put in place in the US in positions of power that allow effective subversion.
The specifics are many, and IMHO we would be naive, at best, to discount this.