Tupolev 95’s are quite a symbol coming straight from Cold War’s days.

Aren’t we gently coming back to the “good old Cold War days?” The masquerade of the good Russia renouncing to dystopian policy doesn’t fool anyone anymore.
It’s never been about whether Russia was communist and attempted to spread Communism on Earth or not - the Russian elite doesn’t care about Communism – but about mere power.

Long ago already, Catherine the Great once said “To control my borders, I cannot but extend them;” that was, and still is, the goal. And long before this time Russia was founded by a horde of restless, reckless, and homeless barbarians riding on horses.
In 1917, the Russian Empire left place for the Soviet Union, not because this ideology was once fashionable, but because Nicolas II failed to conquer Manchuria and was obliged to withdraw benightedly from this region after the lost naval battle of 1905 against Japan, which country was universally considered as a minor power in those earlier days. What a shame for Russia! - from the own avowal of Russian revolutionaries who used Nicolas II’s failure as pretext to convince the Russian populace.

If ever Russian could conquer the whole World, then those folks would find themselves suddenly frustrated to the point that they would certainly plan to continue planting flags under the see before they would begin to do the same on the moon — and beyond. All this is unmistakably obsessional-compulsive and betrays a collective frustration of a sort whose cause is to be found in its geographical and climatic location, in my opinion. Russia if far away from everything and strikingly repealing, owing to its inhospitable climate. Collectively, Russia exemplifies the case of the frustrated bad kid sitting in the back of the classroom who is chewing over his revenge day.

The official raison d’être of today’s Russian expansionism is based upon nothing but a hodgepodge of contradictory values ranging from Nationalism to Orthodox Catholicism, to anti-Americanism/Capitalism, to past prestige, to suppressed Communism, or anything else you could find as long as it doesn’t match Democratic tenets. All this has no more value and credibility than the narrative of a street gang. But do they still care about narrative?

Sometimes ago, Vladimir Putin once publicly stated while addressing to an occidental leader - I cite in substance from recollection: “Don’t try to understand Russia and how it works; for there is nothing to understand.”

I’m one among those who believe that a come back to Cold War is a good thing because it will not entail greater concerns than today’s; it will make things clearer, and so negotiable; and it will help many to get out of paranoid schizophrenia. Even terrorists will become more rational in their undertakings.