Russia has always been an enemy of Israel, and the U.S.
Why has Russia always been our “enemy?”
“Russia has always been an enemy of Israel, and the U.S.”
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Actually, that’s not correct. To be sure, they have, except for a small detail (recognizing Israel as a nation shortly after it declared independence - and that was done to tweak the noses of the Brits), been an enemy of one degree or another to Israel for most of the last 76 years.
WRT the US, yes they were (in their Communist iteration) big enemies of ours for most of the period between 1917 and 1991, and we haven’t exactly been on great terms since (and much of that can be laid at our feet).
However, prior to the Communist Revolution, we and the Russians were actually quite friendly. Recall that they sold us Alaska - you simply don’t do that if the purchaser is hostile to you in any way. But we were then, as now, literally on the other side of the planet and, because technology didn’t allow for us to be at odds with each other, we had no reason to hate or undercut each other.
In the late 19th century and continuing on to 1917, the US leased a considerable patch of territory in central NJ to the Russian government. They used it to test their new artillery ammunition, which they would assemble in part from trainloads of gun powder shipped by rail from DuPont in Delaware. This land later became Lakehurst NAS, McGuire AFB and Ft. Dix. I know this because I grew up in that area, and it was part of the local history. Go ahead - try telling me that we would have leased land to the Russian Army and given them gunpowder for their artillery, when they were located about 1/2 way between NYC and Philadelphia.