Re: Two steps forward...
"This is the Russian response to US plans to put an anti-ICBM launch site in Poland"
It has nothing to do with that. Emerging nuclear powers are the key here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_missile_defense_complex_in_Poland
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6720153.stm
As to our new Russian 'friends', Russian espionage activity in the UK became even higher after the cold war. Russian military activity (e.g., Chechnyz) became elevated after the cold war. The cold war itself was punctuated by acts of savagery such as the attempts by countries in which the USSR/Russia had no rights at all to regain their freedom, stolen from them after WWII by the Russian monster.
Russia has been assassinating any form of opposition that it can since Putin's time (e.g., more than 65 journalists, the irredentist activities in Crimea and the attack on Ukraine, which remembers the loss of 8 millions during the holodomor), and Putin has explicitly said the Soviet union was a good thing, whilst also trying to rehabilitate the mass murderer (of some 30 millions), Stalin.
The Russian state Duma is packed out with Putin's choice of former KGB and FSB staff, including the assassin Lugovoi (who murdered Litvenenko, the former KBG Lt Col who was when employed by them charged with the task of investigating Putin's corruption), and Putin has rearranged the security and military in such a way that they are probably the most powerful and effective praetorian guard in history.
Do not believe Putin's revisionism, no matter who spouts it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
