re: #182 Targetpractice

There were plenty of Changs and Kirks in the world after ‘91, realizing that the world they’d spent decades cultivating was coming to an end and the one replacing it saw them as allies, if not friends.

But that wasn’t really true, was it? The USSR fell because it was too broke and too obviously dysfunctional to survive. Russians still did not like the US very much, and even today they still see America as more of a problem than an ally.