"Putin’s bulging pectorals may be menacing, but his bluster can’t quite compare to the growl of the Soviet bear in the days when Nikita Khrushchev threatened to “bury” us, and KGB cloak-and-dagger work in Washington was all too real. Early 1960s thrillers like “Seven Days in May,” “Fail Safe” and “The Manchurian Candidate” were scary because they were plausible (if nightmare) scenarios — not the sexy, “Mad Men” — era nostalgia of FX’s popular television drama, “The Americans.”
But as President Barack Obama’s GOP critics lambaste him, as John McCain did for a “feckless foreign policy in which no one believes in American strength any more,” it’s worth remembering that some things haven’t changed since the bad old days. Because even at the height of the Cold War, the United States generally held back from direct confrontation with the Soviet Union in the face of its most provocative acts within its own sphere of influence — and no American president has ever had good options to the contrary."
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/ukraine-russia-crimea-cold-war-104438.html?hp=t1
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