Did you know that Russia has supported us since the America Revolution, and has actually been our most staunchest ally even more than Great Britain?
It may have been so before the Russian Revolution. It quickly changed after that.
My mother was a Swede. Her grandparents immigrate to the US through Finland. My mom’s grandfather had to serve in the White Russian Army before they would let him leave.
The lived in MN. They were Staunch Republicans in a terribly Democrat state.
Yes, Russia and China were good customers of the US before the Communists.
And yes, I hope Trump and Putin can work together to build a relationship that benefits all.
Needs clarification.
Russia and the US had a working relationship during the Czarist period. Trade, diplomatic ties, and purchase of territory.
Bolshevik and Soviet Russia engaged in numerous anti American activities, agitation espionage, insurrection, sabotage, and financing terrorism, excluding military confrontation. The Soviet union escalated actions to proxy warfare, covert action, accidental (or not) military incidents and possible covert retaliation for US covert actions that they SUSPECTED the US implemented, but still no open military confrontation.
The Russian Federation has a much better record of reducing, very significantly, proxy and covert action of all types and supporting the US fully in anti terrorist operations and intervention.
The Russian Federation has been a valuable ally in the fight against Islamic Terrorism wherever the US goes.