"Soviet" counterpart? "Soviet" meddling?  Geez, Michael --  talk about revealing slips. The cold war is over. Russia is not our adversary. Godless communism was. Putin is no worse than Erdogan or China. Russian actions are explained by US/NATO provocations  Check real liberals like Chomsky, vanden Heuval,  Cockburn, and Matt Taibbi, who recently spent years in Moscow. On this issue, Trump is the moral choice. Regime change is not in the catechism.