re: #512 lawhawk

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Trump’s trying to claim that things have never been worse in US-Russia relations. For that to be true, we’d have to ignore the Cuban Missile Crisis, Berlin blockade/airlift, and a whole host of other crises (1973 Yom Kippur War) that nearly saw the US and Soviets engage in direct military conflict.

It’s not even good kayfabe.

We nonetheless need to distinguish between the USSR and Russia.

There are big differences: Russia is no longer trying to export a worldwide ideology and political-economic system.

But it is certainly seeking to re-establish the old Russian Empire, including the former Soviet republics and then start exerting its political and economic influence over former Soviet Bloc nations.