Cold War Nostalgia

Nostalgia comes from the Greek words for "homesick." And a Freeper is nowhere more at home than the cold war. Evil enemy, constant fear, unfettered spying, riding the moral high ground of World War 2...

And then Russia tries to pull a US and do some "peacekeeping."

Hell yes! It is on like Red Dawn!

cornelis:

Oh, this is so much more familiar and dramatic than warring with those numbskull ragheads. Some have said—distracting. If China acts up, the US will begin to discuss its weakness.

Hard to figure out what the actual meaning is, but he clearly misses the drama of the cold war.

Hawthorn wants to believe:

A propos of this story, I was listening last night on shortwave (9860 kHz @ 0215 UTC) to the English-language service of the Voice of Russia. The anti-American tirade sounded almost exactly like Radio Moscow in the 1950's, even down to the pitch of the announcer's voice!

Well if the radio sounds the same, that's all it takes! I expect Russia to invade Ukrain and unveil it's 5 year plan any day!

smedley64's favorite part of the 1950s was the home front:

“Cheney lied and Russians died!” No doubt the Russians and the American left really aren’t all that different in their ultimate hopes and dreams. Even their rhetoric displays the same insane paranoia, as if lifted right out of DU or Huffpost.

Yay! We get to purge the liberals! Everybody's a winner!

Can we invade Vietnam too?