Putin: First real test of Post Cold War World

The problem as I see it is it has been now 24 years since the Cold War ended. The world has gone on and gotten used to not worrying about Cold War issues as much since then. The problem is we have forgotten just how hard the world worked to keep us all alive from 1945 until 1990. A new generation of people is in charge and many of the old cold War Warriors on both sides have died.

Now, Putin who is nostalgic for the old Soviet Union and the Russian Empire which was at it's height just after World War II is challenging all the work the western World and the Soviets did to keep us all alive until now.

The problem is that his challenge negates what happened between 1945 and 1990 on nuclear fronts, on the changes to old Soviet Union. His challenge negates all of it from detente to SALT treaties to agreements after the Cuban missile crisis that the U.S. would never invade Cuba, the assassination of President Kennedy and the removal from power of

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Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (April 15 [O.S. April 3] 1894 – September 11, 1971) was a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War.

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That likely were related in some way, and all these things to Putin it is as if they never happened.

The only important thing to him it seems is that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest Tragedy of the 20th Century. And of course, the Western World holds the completely opposite view.

This is a test between those who loved the Soviet Union and those who hated  the Soviet Union. 

This is more about what this is about regarding Putin than anything else. He wishes to regain the greatness of the old Soviet or Russian empire once again and everyone who disagrees with him in his own country and around the world are standing in his way in one way or another. So, in the end is Putin crazy enough to take it to nuclear missiles? That still remains to be seen.