The Soviets. I still use the term because nothing has changed. They collapsed, had to swallow their pride for the time it took for the West to extend their usual generosities to a defeated foe, and are now back to being their old selves again having slapped the hand. History repeats itself.
Cruel, perhaps, but the German example perhaps should have taught us to not extend that hand to what history has shown to be a people so ingrained with long-term brutality, not without first a complete dismemberment of its nation-state apparatus as was done with both the Japanese Empire and the Reich.
Anyway, today the Beeb reports Putin warning the US through diplomatic note that continuing to send the Ukes weaponry could result in "unpredictable consequences". Oh dear. Like his predecessors did when the Yanks sent the Afghans Redeye and Stinger, or any number of examples throughout Africa I can remember somewhat personally?
No Vlad, you are just picking up where it was left off; is it Cold War II, then?
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