We don't live in the cold war era anymore, the new USSR doesn't have the backing it used to, at best it will be a chinese puppet, nukes or not. Historic analog

We don't live in the cold war era anymore, the new USSR doesn't have the backing it used to, at best it will be a chinese puppet, nukes or not. Historic analogies never work > What was Europe thinking? That russia is too weak (geopolitically) to make such a move - which it is. Also, it's not like the EU 'pushed' ukraine into this, they chose it themselves.