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This article contains spoilers for Jack Ryan season 3.

Through two seasons, Prime Video’s Jack Ryan has covered some well-trodden topics for CIA spy thrillers. Jack Ryan season 1 found Tom Clancy’s titular CIA analyst on the case of an Islamic extremist’s curious bank statements. Season 2 moved the action to South America, where Jack tried to ensure the democratic legitimacy of a Venezuelan election (a welcome change of pace for the CIA).

While both of those seasons were reasonable successes for the series, Jack Ryan was still missing a prevalent element from Tom Clancy’s writings and spy thrillers in general. That’s right: the Russians, baby. America’s favorite Cold War era big bad finally makes its return in Jack Ryan season 3, albeit in a little more measured, less jingoistic way. The bad guy in Jack Ryan season 3 isn’t so much Russia, but Russians – more specifically, a...

Warning: Spoilers for Jack Ryan Season 3, Episode 8 - "Star On The Wall"Jack Ryan (John Krasinski) stops a war between Russia and the United States in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan season 3's finale, while his allies, James Greer (Wendell Pierce) and Mike November (Michael Kelly) work from within the Kremlin to stop a coup of the Russian government. After discovering a 50-year-old plan involving a nuclear weapon called Sokol was reactivated by a Russian conspiracy, Jack Ryan found himself on the run from the CIA, who thought he had turned. But Ryan regained the trust of enough friends to prove he was right, and together, they had to save the world from a war between the superpowers.

In Jack Ryan season 3's finale, "Star On The Wall," Jack's mission was to stop a Russian destroyer called the Fearless from instigating war with the US. Ryan had already prevented Sokol...