Production for the season likely finished before Russia invaded Ukraine, but the original Butter Battle Book is a metaphor for the Cold War, and we may have already entered Cold War II.

I think the blame for escalating the arms race was near equal between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, but I don't think it's near equal in the new Cold War, though. President Trump made the U.S. the first to leave the START Treaty, then Russia did the same and invaded a country.

Some people have gone a little crazy, taking out how they feel about Russia's government's invasion of Ukraine on Russians or even Ukrainian-run restaurants which serve Russian food. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/nyregion/russian-ukraine-restaurants-new-york.html They both speak similar languages and it just looks like if New York invaded New Jersey, so I see Ukraine/Russia "we are all just people" themes, though.