Eggplant, what has changed since the bad ‘ol days of the Cold War when both sides had thousands of nuclear warheads pointed at one another. We’ve played this game before. This time around the “Soviet Union” is a tad smaller and has a new set of neighbors that remember all too well the “good old days”. Putin has only reminded them what the stakes are. He can now look forward to US/Nato bases in the Ukraine, the Baltic States, Georgia and elsewhere. President McCain will make sure of that.