Sourced: US Naval Institute Blog
By CDRSalamander
As Russia started to get her footing a few years ago and stretched back on to the international stage, so much of what was once thought gone has returned.
For those who lived through the Cold War or served through it, we are seeing the re-emergence of things we thought long forgotten.
This is not the hulking Soviet Union threat of old, no. Today’s Russia is deadly, but a shadow of the threat to the globe that the Soviet Union was. That being said, because of her size, personality, and legacy nuclear systems – she remains an existential threat.
We should not under estimate her power or potential. History is strewn with those who have. We should also not make her out to be something she is not at the end of the second decade of the 21st Century.
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