We were allies out of necessity, against a mutual enemy, not because we shared values.
Notice how we are judged to have to hate Russia if we don’t
agree with what it is doing in the Ukraine?
I don’t hate Russia, and I doubt you do either. I have no
problem with the Russian people who don’t want their kids
in the Ukraine anymore than we want ours there.
We were allies with Russia and the USSR twice, once in WWI
and once in WWII. Both times we did it to fight a common
enemy. That was all we shared.