The Misconception of the Cold War in Russia

Boris yelsen brought power before putten. So there's a misunderstanding of democracy in russia in the nineties. We did make many mistakes, as do in policy. And we did sometimes prevaricate and mislead the russians when we shouldn't have. But the biggest mistake of all is when we conflite russia with the personalist regime. Puten feels insecure, and nado threatens him personally. In his mind. The e u threatens puten. Democracy threatens him in his personalist regimes. Does this threaten russia? Does it threaten russian security? Let's be honest, it does not. It never did.