12-10-2015, 03:28 PM
(12-10-2015, 02:31 PM)Benton Wrote: That's a good theory.
Personally, I think they misunderstood the cold war. I think they thought when it was over, Russia would be the 51st state. We'd put a McDonald's there, take all their oil, pile up their nukes and drink all their vodka. Instead, they just sort of faded away and we didn't get to "win" anything.
Indeed. While there was the fall of the wall and the loss of territory for them, there was no definitive end to it, really. It may not be a sense of nostalgia for them, at all, but the folks in power now see it all as still ongoing.
