"(1) For seventy years, commentators have been anti-Soviet and since obviously some of Russia's foreign policy stances will coincide with those of the USSR, their knee-jerk reaction to argue against these positions in the past carried over to the present day."
Its funny......they put nukes right off our shores, invade countires to spread their miserable and failed communist goverment/system, have their leader have a hissy fit and bang his shoe on a platform saying "WE WILL BURY YOUU!!!" .....and then years later the dolts wonder why we hold a grudge?
No, you are stuck in the nineties when Clinton was in power and you had free reign to attack US foreign policy.
That time is over.
Welcome to now.