There was a time, believe it or not, when Russia was the undisputed enemy of America and of Western democracy, irrespective of your political views.
The reason for that was very simple.
It's because Russia was indisputably the enemy of America and Western Democracy.
And it still, indisputably, is, that exact same enemy. No ifs, no buts.
Questions?
@JolieSaboteuse
When our politics fail us, there is war. We have no one else to blame but ourselves and who we choose to love and hate.
Communist Russia and democratic USA were allies together during WWII against the socialist Germany. Now Germany and USA are allies against Russia.
We decided to be enemies when we decided to invade each other's space. This is every warring nations problem. Yes, we have been enemies for a long time now. So maybe soon we will be deciding to be friends.
@MagnetoMancer When it comes to invading somebody else's space, Russia took its adminstrtive control of a sector of Berlin to mean it belonged to Russia, (hence the Berlin airlift) and in short order annexed half of Germany against the wishes of the german people.
@JolieSaboteuse
Any nation can put aside their differences to fight a common enemy at any time. If that is not alliance, then it is simply common sense, which is in very short supply in the world today. Then when the war is past we can go back to flirting with disaster by squabbling over the same petty political ideals that started the last war...
...or we can say enough already, and not let our enemies be each other, but Poverty and Disease, and an increasing Climate hostile to all our lives.
@MagnetoMancer That's kind of straying awy from the initial point of a so called alliance.
Russia actually did have an alliance that pre-dated the war, in the formof a non agression pact with Germany under which Russia supplied oil on a commercial basis to the nazis.
It was only when the North African campaign failed, and therefore did not secure a ready suply of free oil for Germany, that Hitler launched a surprise attack on Russia to secure its oil supplies.
It was not an ideological thing.
@JolieSaboteuse
There is no legitimate excuse for invading another countries borders.
People need to understand how Ideologies welded by a few evil minded people can corrupt a nation of otherwise good people and cause them to go to war and commit the most ugly demoralizing inhumane atrocities.
The most extreme form of the Lebensraum ideology was supported by the Nazi Party and Nazi Germany, and was a leading motivation of Nazi Germany to initiate WWII.
@JolieSaboteuse
Also see here verifying that communist Russia/then the Soviet Union, China, United Kingdom, and United States were allies during WWII. Which shows political ideological differences have been put aside for the good of all. We must continue this wave for the good of all between more countries and so prevent WWIII:
@MagnetoMancer Allies purely of necessity. China had been at war with Japan since before WW2. Russia was attacked by germany in act of betrayal.
It's also worth remembering that barely five years after the end of WW2, China was engaged in open warfare with US and Commonwealth forces in Korea, using Russian supplied weapons, vehicles, and aircraft.
Hardly a durable alliance, and one that certainly did not overcome ideological differences.
@MagnetoMancer it was not an alliance. We simply had a common enemy. As early as May 1945 the uneasy co-operation had broken down as the red Army rampaged through Berlin and german units fought alongside US and British Commonwealth units against them.
Russian special detachments raced against the western powers to retrieve German aeronautical, engineering, and nuclear secrets.