"Wolverines!"

So one of my students was presenting a report on a career in the military, mentioning that they'd like to bomb the enemies of America, including Russia. It was unsettling to the other teacher, but I thought it was pretty funny. While Russia is certainly an ally now, I simply saw it a side effect of the fact that Russians still play a large part of "enemy forces" in a lot of popular video games, such as Modern Warfare 2, which more or less plays out a "Red Dawn" scenario of Russians invading US Soil. This, working in tandem with the fact that so many beloved movies deal with the looming confrontations of the cold war, make it difficult for younger students who aren't aware of global current events to the level that adults might be, to interpret and understand the current state of non-fictionalized relations between the US and other countries.