Tsar Paul was the first European head of state to recognize the independence of the U.S., but Russia hardly gave it any support. Without the support of the French, the British would have ended the American rebellion in due course. Americans owed the French for their independence, not the Russians.
And Spain. Spain rarely gets mentioned.
Absolutely true. The Russian Empire, not the Soviet Union (which Putin deliberately tries to merge together, neatly forgetting his continuing Communist past and the story of the real creator of the USSR, being Germany during WWI).
Germany, supposedly reluctantly approved by Kaiser Wilhelm of the machinations of his FM Beckman Holtveck (sic) and a Socialist of the the name of Helfhand (Helping Hand), arranged for a German Army guarded armored train taking 70 Comrades and V. Lenin as well as 1 million plus in gold from Switzerland to/thru Helsinki -transferred by ferry boat to the train into St. Petersberg). Kaiser was assured by Hindenburg and the crazy Ludendorff, that neutralizing Russia would allow them to pull forces to concentrate on the French and win the war. They didn’t of course).
The Kaiser didn’t give a damn about his cousin Nicholas— when it came to the Kaiser’s greater personal glory. What a joke he became- trying to install himself back in the country weaseling with Hitler who ignored him.
Putin is East German/Russian KGB never was who still thinks of himself as some great Russian leader. He is destroying what is left of Russia for his greater persistence and fraud. He is not the bugaboo created and maintained by US mil-industrial types- he long ago just became a basic gas station salesman for the vast resources of real Russia.
Trump is figuring out the Stalinist that is Putin, who needs perpetual war as much as the Ukrainian grift operators in the US.