“This ain’t the same USSR boogie man so many are whining about.”
Oh sure, they’ve just got a KGB man running the show, an effectively one-party political system, governmental control over the press (and soon the internet) and they start armed insurrections in neighboring countries.
Totally different from the USSR!
Brzezinski? Does that ring a bell?
You're right.
Russia is a Neofascist state with the preservation of Christianity as one of their foreign policy pillars.
We have far less opportunity for political confrontation with such a state then with the USSR which was sworn to our annihilation.
Not to say we don't have real and dangerous differences. But it's not as bad as it was.