And that raises an interesting point. When the cold war ended the U.S could have launched an all out effort to co-opt Russia into a great cooperation. With a view to China’s rise. After all, if the U.S was able to hold German and Japanese in their loving embrace, why not Russia. But the cold war warriors were miffed they never got direct action against Russia itself. And so any deep coming together was thwarted except for some limited co-operation
A blown opportunity by Bull Clinton. Boris Yeltsin was a drunk. Then it was too late.
Trump tried to set up a better relationship with Russia, but
then the Left decided to go all-in on the Russian Collusion
scam.
By the time they got going, Trump couldn’t have met with
Putin if Putin volunteered to pay off the U. S. national debt.
That was mostly on the CLINTONS, they treated the Russians like shit and made no effort whatso ever to partner with them either economically or otherwise.