I was actually involved in the Cold War, not from an armchair. A leopard never changes its spots. Putin is the real relic of the Cold War who would like to return to the good old days of the Soviet Union and its hegemony over Eastern Europe. Why do you think all those Warsaw Pact countries clamored to get into NATO after the fall of the Soviet Union?
I was too and was personal witness to a lot of encounters. We did not shoot at each other.
You and I agree that that is Putin’s end game. The reestablishment of the former Soviet empire under the influence of a fascist Russia. So far he is winning the day, because we have feckless, stupid and cowardly leadership.