The historical echoes are audible. Moscow and Washington have competing narratives. They represent to the world separate and rival political principles. They are contesting the overall geopolitical disposition of Europe. The nuclear element is still there between the superpowers. Nor were invasions unknown during the Cold War. The Soviet Union invaded Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968, massive military operations in the heart of Europe. All through the Cold War, Western military planners counted the number of Soviet tanks and helicopters and soldiers. At the moment, the empirical details of the Russian military are once again a matter of obsessive concern.
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