I lived through 2½ decades of the last Cold War, particularly the 80s when Reagan ramped up the aggressive rhetoric towards Brezhnev, Chernenko & Gorbachev... like he was daring them to try something

If the Ukraine invasion is Russia's version of the Spanish Civil War - a dress rehearsal for the real thing, then all Putin has shown is how far behind the Russian army really is when it comes to tactics & logistics - something that will quickly be exploited when they come up against a real opponent who isn't geographically & politically isolated...