World watches as the U.S., allies, and Russia close in on a repeat of the last century’s history with the added threat of nuclear arms capable of destroying entire nations
Having lived through the long Cold War with the former Soviet Union, including the Cuban Missile crisis, my thoughts over those years were that their leaders would not risk war because the outcome would be disastrous for Russia. When it collapsed in 1991, its Eastern Europe satellite states broke free to establish their independence.
