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a lot of people born after genuinely find it hard to comprehend the mindset Are we not in the middle of a cold war with Russia currently?

• saiya-jin 3y ago
  Middle? It had just begun and will get worse before it gets better, but now world has 3 big players. Plus plenty of smaller ones with matching egos. Look what China is doing, very smart from longterm perspective
• retrac 3y ago
  Not in quite the same way with people's imaginations running away from them. Perhaps important to remember how opaque the USSR was at the time -- e.g. when Chernobyl blew up, no one outside the USSR knew until radiation drifted over the border, and large riots were often received as only vague word of mouth rumour in the West. In such an information void, your imagination fills in the details. Especially if you worry about their industrial capacity, and maybe even secretly wonder if they do have a better way of organizing society like they claim, in terms of pure brutal results. A closer analogy today would be with China, and how paranoid some people were with the offensive potential of a balloon.
• RandomLensman 3y ago
  Not really, Russia so clearly lacks the resources to really keep up - unlike the USSR for quite a while.