Sorry if the truth hurts your feelings.
On paper the armies of the USSR did look formidable, but hind sight is 20/20.
I’m not saying they’d be a push over but they were not what they said they were or what we thought they were. It’s the truth, like it or not. For the most part they were ill trained, ill equipped and not disciplined. They did have some crack troops but they were few and far between.
Oh well, as long as I don’t agree with you and conform to your narrowed mindedness I’ll just be another putinista.
It wasn’t truth and it didn’t hurt my feelings. I don’t think your memory of the period is very good, and I don’t know if your military service involved you much with the European theater, during the 1980s.
For you nothing changes, Reagan conservatives have always been on the wrong side of Russia, even now as they are fighting in Ukraine.
Go Ted Cruz for 2016. Ted seems to have the right idea on Ukraine.