The shitty thing is that we have a whole generation who has given up on Russia as a threat. The only thing they hear about the cold war is Joe McCarthy, and they think the whole thing was overblown. The CIA may be populated by paranoid and power hungry jerkoffs, but the KGB is just depraved. They used to treat their own Olympic athletes like criminals in waiting. I was happy to read a former CIA director endorse Clinton today. Even if that's a bridge too far for most national security types, I hope more have the foresight to denounce Trump ASAP.
You sound like you have a serious bone to pick with Russia. Why is a general, nationwide awareness of Russia as a threat important to you?
I don't have a bone to pick with Russia. I just don't want to see a return to Soviet power. The USSR was a plague on the world in general, and Eastern Europe in particular. Putin seems to long for the "glory days" of Brezhnev invading Czechoslovakia for daring to want their own brand of communism. The world shouldn't have to endure another bout of Bolshevism any more than it should have to endure the Nazis for a second time. I think a failure of imagination vis-a-vis what Putin's designs on Eastern Europe are could be a complete catastrophe. That's all. No ill will toward Russia or the Russian people from me.
I'm not a defender of all things Russian. Thank you, I was curious as to what was populating your worldview that I might not have known about.