When the Berlin Wall fell in November of 1989, the whole world hoped it meant a new era of cooperation and friendship with the Russian people. Almost 30 years later, however, our relationship with Russia is almost as strained as it was during the Cold War. Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 and the Ukraine 2014, and it continues to prolong humanitarian crises in Libya, Syria, and Venezuela. Russian agents stole emails from the Democratic National Committee, hacked voting machines in some states, and accessed voter data files in others.