Was there ever a formal treaty to cover the reputed settlement ending the Cold War? (Answer - no.)
Were the countries who threated the West from 1945 - ? disarmed to a point where they would no longer be a threat? (Answer - no.)
Have Western nations explicitly and deterministically verified what few agreements exist? (Answer - no.)
Have the "former Eastern Bloc" nations continued to arm and economically support other nations who initially turned against the West during the late 70s and early 80s? (Answer - yes.)
Do the Russians actively support and enable the gradual but definite build up of strategic military capabilities of the PRC? (Answer - yes.)
Have the Russians changed a single geopolitical friendship with a single enemy of the USA since 9/11? (Answer - no.)
Have the Russians agreed to oppose the USA in the event of our defending Taiwan against PRC aggression? (Answer - yes.)
Did the Russians sign an historic Axis treaty with the PRC on 7/16/2001, less than 60 days prior to 9/11? (Answer - yes.)
Did the Russians back off from the 7/16/2001 treaty after 9/11? (Answer - no.)
Have our leaders been utter cowards in terms of asking direct questions or demanding real proof of appropriate behavior on the part of the "former Eastern Bloc" ever since 1991? (Answer - yes.)
Are there significant similarities between the ambiguous settlement of 1989 - 1991 and the one that came from the 1918 Armistice between the Triple Entente and the Axis Powers? (Answer - yes.)
Is the settlement of 1989 - 1991 even more permissive and more ambiguous in expectations and enforcement than either the Treaty of Versailles or the Treaty of Locarno? (Answer - yes.)
Have the Russians and other "former foes" of the US from the Cold War engaged in behavior such as hiding weapons, falsifying force levels, and using other nations as venues of both arms development and production?(Answer - yes.)
Did Weimar Germany also do this? (Answer - yes.)
Were the underpinnings of the Third Reich already in place as early as 1923, with wilful participation and full approval of the "republican" Weimar government? (Answer - yes.)
Have we failed to learn from history? (Answer - yes.)
Well, there are other choices. Russia could be a Soviet communist threat on steroids today, fed by a present generation of leaders who were schooled in the Soviet methods of interference and sabotage of independence in the 1960s. These are a new crop of monsters, I fear, who have known no other thing than communist/KGB Soviet techniques of "concordance" to create discord.
Unfortunately I fear these tactics are being implemented before our eyes today. I think Russia might very well be a communist threat to the power 10, and woe to those who ignore the dissidents, the nuke rocket confinements and who do not encourage Russians themselves to have their own government tone down its proselytist and charismatic tone.
Russia needs more of an Orthodox church like humility, a movement to heal the wounds of its true martyrs and dissidents, to reach out for this peace in independent concordance that produces projects in the free, unseen and unfettered privacy of their own people.
I fear that Bush and other liberals are the ones hating Russia back into the USSR, because they snub the martyrs of Russia, they snub the Orthodox church, they snub opportunities to make peace with the Russian people by the necessary bypassing of Russia's leaders to outreach the masses through the church or directly, they snub all that and instead build coalitions with gossipers, neighbor snitches and crooked KGB men in power, seeking the welfare of their peace, instead of providing peace welfare for the Russian people in the war on terror and Jihadic proselytism.
It's as if we hate a free Russia, ironicaly. The lure of free trade and free market unfortunately does not necessarily mean the independent uninterfered concordant privacy necessary for a free future. What is advocated unfortunately is a liberal psychedelic charismatic and discordant trade through imposed "multiculturalism", made of immigrants coming here and there, and school "integrations". Our freedom is a tenuous one too. It's the economy stupid is an arrogance. People only need to be left alone and to avoid the mass hysterias of joblessness and government dependance.