The 'Cold War' revisited...

Question Everything:

Does Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin aspire to becoming another Losif Vissarionovich Stalin, perhaps? Or is he simply in need of a brain transplant?

Reviving the 'Cold War' with warships near Australia, and planning bomber patrols along the shores of North America seems both extravagant and unnecessary, especially since ICBMs render most of that obsolete, as any leader of a nation the size of Russia should know. What's wrong with Vlad The Lad? Is he suffering premature senility? Or has he forgotten this is the 21st Century?