These Cold War definitions are unfortunately all too relevant again with the advent of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Some terms are from the original period of nuclear anxiety between the United States and the Soviet Union, and are being fleshed out with new terminology from the age of frigidity between Putin’s Russia and the so-called decadent West — a monolithic evil seen through the eyes of Kremlin propaganda once more.
Russian psychological warfare has even come home to roost here in the United States, finding a home — quite curiously — in the right-wing circles formerly best known for their virulent anti-communism.
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