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Oh yeah, this is going to piss them off.

I'd rather you keep on writing.

As I said, IMO, a lot of that was that kind of spite, yes. I do think you underestimate the heights of paranoia Russians have demonstrated to be capable of, though.

Eh, I wouldn't say pure spite. It was more, IMO, a mix of spite and 'they can't dominate me if their country also is in shambles'.

IS-3s and T-10s, those were the main heavy tanks in mothballs. When they start scrapping the bottom of the barrel, you might see some IS-2Ms being put back into service.

OTOH, when they shat over what he wrote in the The Sum of All Fears(or was it in the Clear and Present Danger adaptation?) movie adaptation, he said: "I didn't like the changes, but then they told me it would sell more, so I started liking them". He should have known better.

It the balloon goes up? Yes. I think this would be something done just before war begins(there are some benefits in making the USSR bleed their foreign money reserves). Also, effects would take some time to be noticed, and the USSR had a somewhat high tolerance for hardship(it would be 'business...

Major USSR suppliers of grain were the USA and Argentina, IIRC.