03-07-2022, 03:07 PM
The fear was greater because it was happening close to the US mainland. The target was us, not some small eastern European nation thousands of miles away.
And at that time the American public had been primed to fear or despise the USSR as a rival super power.
We've spent the past 25 years either feeling sorry for Russia in their weakened economic state, or cozying up to their social conservatism and autocracy.
Putin as a throwback not just to Soviet times but to imperialist Mother Russia of the Tsars is just confusing and weird I think to many Americans.
And at that time the American public had been primed to fear or despise the USSR as a rival super power.
We've spent the past 25 years either feeling sorry for Russia in their weakened economic state, or cozying up to their social conservatism and autocracy.
Putin as a throwback not just to Soviet times but to imperialist Mother Russia of the Tsars is just confusing and weird I think to many Americans.