The WRONG way to look at it

This heading is wrong.

Don't get me  wrong Putin is not a nice man. But either the Cold War Era was going on before this, OR this is the "start" of nothing.

What happened is NATO kicked out 8 Russians from the mission accused of spying. IN retaliation, Putin closed the NATO offices in Moscow.

NOW - if they really were spying, the "New Cold War" era started long before this.

If they really were not spying, then we kicked off the "New Cold War" era.

Pretending this is a new era ignores their efforts to sway elections both for Trump and or Brexit. Both won, but might have won without Russian shenanigans. 

I just want us to be clear. Words matter. Words like insurrection and overthrow.