Russia has been using United States opposition to them as proof that America is the great evil in the world. Putin and his people are actively promoting conspiracy theories wherein the United States is propping up fascist movements, and that we are equivalent to the Illuminati. Aleksandr Dugin, an occultist and "intellectual" with links to the Kremlin and who frequently appears on Russian state run TV, believes, or, at least, publicly claims, that the United States is a tool for the NWO to dominate the world. (He thinks Russia should dominate the world instead, and this based on a racial-tsarist ideology.)
All of this is setting us up for a nuclear strike at some point in the future. That is my honest opinion.