re: #6 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The Cold War was between the USA and the USSR…two world ideologies clashing for dominance

Russia is not the USSR, and although it shares certain goals with the USSR such as a will to reunite as much of the old Russian/Soviet empire as it can, it is not spreading a world ideology, just pursuing its somewhat more limited national interests.

Slight objection - you are presuming that the Russian have not adopted the same ideology that they previously fought in the Great Patriotic War. That remains to be seen to me…