Putin has quite the grudge, it seems.
As I understand it, the goal of MADD is to prevent a preemptive first strike by having an effective second-strike method?.
Eg, supercavitating nuclear torpedoes are not useful in a preemptive first strike as they can only take out port cities and spread fallout downwind.
But they are an effective second strike weapon as they are impossible to intercept, so make it harder for the US decide to attack.
For maybe a couple decades, it seemed possible that the Cold War was over. But I guess that was an illusion.
Since you earlier pointed to Putin's grudges, I thought you meant that Russia's new weapons development programs (post-2000) broke the illusion.
When the USSR collapsed, the US could have been gracious. Although there was some show of that, overall the US was aggressive, vindictive and disrespectful toward Russia. From what I've read, Yeltsin took it very hard, and drank himself to death.
And then his protégé Putin came to power. Whose family had died during the siege of Leningrad, and who had watched his mentor drink himself to death.
At that point, Cold War II was ~unavoidable.
And who made those videos? I don't see any organizational affiliation. So I suspect propaganda, of one sort or another.
Human Edge is a Canadian television series - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Edge
Ian Brown is a Canadian journalist - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Brown_(journalist)
ARTE (Franco-German public broadcaster) [0] and the BBC [1]. Back when they weren’t fighting Cold War II.