re: #100 Teukka

“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”
— Admiral Josh Painter in “The Hunt for Red October”

I think we can be grateful that by the time the USSR fell apart that its military was also in a shambolic state or we could have seen a desperate military coup that might have taken us to the brink of WW3 and beyond.

We cannot compare the current situation with the Cold War, Russia is no longer exporting a world ideology and its ambitions are local and territorial, but those ambitions include bringing the rest of the former Soviet republics back under its sphere of control.