re: #53 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.

They believed ths Soviets were our sworn enemies, but the current crop of oligarch/plutocrats? Not so much. (And a lot of the anti-USSR feeling was opportunistic anyway. Too many of them know nothing about anything outside their own districts and bank balances. If they even know that much.)

True. But that is an excuse for the Republicans to use now that they need it. The old Soviet Union changed back in the late 80s, but have the new Russians changed enough that the Republicans can use the excuse now?

I think it is pretty clear Putin is doing very Soviet like things under the name of Russia. In fact, until Trump came along, actually even before he was elected, there were many current Republicans that were still fine with thinking Russia was still our enemy.

Now they are too power hungry to get what they want for them to remember.