Perhaps Russia supports our adversaries because we support theirs.
When and if the US stops its aggression toward Russia, relations will improve.
“When and if the US stops its aggression toward Russia, relations will improve.”
The aggression that the Zeepers seem so hell-bent on certainly ends with Trump/Vance, as to relations with Russia, they should slowly heal, but Russia will, for good reason, always, now, be wary of the West.
When and if the US stops its aggression toward Russia, relations will improve.
Russia was repressive to its own people and fiercely expansionist, even under the Czars. And after the appalling, murderous Russian Revolution in 1917, they used Marxist ideological and organizing tactics to take over Russia and its neighbors, exterminate religion, and infiltrate, undermine, and when possible, subjugate foreign governments, big and small, all over the globe--Western Europe, Easter Europe, China, Africa, South America. . . and for some reason, they have a big presence in Antarctica. (Are they teaching the penguins about Marx?)
I grew up in American suburbia in the 1950s and '60s. There were families, many of whom were our friends, who were getting their information on world events and about America (and how evil American patriots are, especially religious ones, and especially white ones, etc., etc.). Sons and daughters of some of our friends, after studying at elite American colleges, went to Russia to train at the Patrice Lumumba [Spy] School, where they learned how to plant bombs to kill policemen in America--which some of them did as The Weathermen, for which they briefly went to prison. They learned their outlook and criminal skills from agents of the Soviet Union.
The Free-Love, Feminist, "Marriage Bad, Abortion Great" propaganda was right out of the "advanced" ideas that Russian "active measures" agents and their pupils taught the starry-eyed, simple-minded teachers at US colleges, including Teachers' College at Columbia University in New York, where my mother got her art degree (without swallowing the BS). The violent, murderous, empty-headed suicide of Western culture in the US, France, and the UK was cultivated by departments of the Soviet government as a means of weakening and undermining the West.
The Russians took a big hit when Communist ideas caused Russia itself to collapse--in particular the ones outlawing private property except for Communist Party bosses--which undermined the Russian economy into a pile of sand.
But they're still at the game of gnawing at everyone else's timbers, hoping to make them collapse, so Russia can enslave them--as in Ukraine. Not that I think we must overlook American survival in order to save Ukraine at all costs.
There is much that is beautiful and good and holy in Russian culture. But that part was not in charge under the Communists, and it's not in charge now. Putin and other ambitious, cruel men there are still Communist at heart.
Yeah, we're the "Bad Guys!"
/mordant sarcasm
Regards,
Russians are losers and that makes them envy those who aren’t losers. They know they can’t stop being losers so they choose to continue supporting all the troublemakers in the world.