Be more explicit, please. Plenty of countries hold lands claimed by other countries. Poland holds swats of German land. Are Poland and Germany enemies over that? Nope.
"support regimes with which we are at odds"
And US support regimes with which they are at odds.
Are you really ready to start a nuclear war over that?
As long as Russia doesn't attack America (and it never has), it is not an enemy. It had even been an ally in two world wars. I read somewhere on the net a striking story on WWII ... Looking for it ... OK, found it. Here it is:
"On May 8, 1945, in Chicago, a young American sergeant Joseph Byerly, a veteran of two armies, the American and the Soviet, celebrated his miraculous survival in the brutal WWII.
Sixty-five years later, on May 6, 2010, in Moscow, his son, American Ambassador in Russia, John Byerly, opened an exhibition, devoted to his late father, – Joseph Byerly: Hero of Two Nations.
The Ambassador’s father had been a 21-year-old paratrooper, when his C-47 transport plane was shot down by Germans on June 6, 1944. He was captured and thrown into a concentration camp. Joseph tried to escape, and on a third attempt, in January 1945, he finally succeeded. Joseph heard the uninterrupted sound of the rapidly approaching Soviet artillery, and he decided to walk eastward, toward the Russians. When, several days later, Joseph saw the first Soviet soldiers, he shouted in broken Russian: “Ya vash Amerikanskyi tovarishch!” (“I am your American comrade!”)
Joseph Byerly refused to leave the 2nd Byelorussian Front, continued fighting as a soldier in a tank battalion, was severely wounded, and was successfully treated in a field hospital. The war for the brave American Comrade was finally over."
