I'm sorry, but I think the "victory" in the Cold War looks increasingly meaningless by the day [View all]

[ck4829]

You've got a country that:
* Oppresses its own people
* Deals in terror against its neighbors
* Has a nuclear arsenal with a madman at the button
* Kills dissidents in other countries

And then you've got Kissinger saying that Ukraine needs to cede land to Russia and that we shouldn't be trying to humiliate the Kremlin.

I mean, to me, they sound just like the USSR, except, you know, not communist.

I get it; the west wants to save face, many conservatives want to preserve Reagan's legacy that according to them he was the one who struck the killing blow to the USSR, and Kissinger and others may want to justify the breathtaking human and civil rights abuses our country perpetrated in Latin America, Africa, and Asia and that the ends justified the means...

But it's time to face a hard and brutal fact:

The "victory" in the Cold War gave us an even more dangerous Russia... except, you know, not communist.