There are a chain of events that begin in 2003 where Putin began making an about face in temporary strategic alliance against Islam. The missle shield is partially a strong message that we will not tolerate Russia helping the ME build the Arab bomb.
That said, I have some strong religious beliefs about Russia and those include that Russia will launch an all out nuclear attack on our country after we see a global collapse of the central banking system and a regional ME war. We have a massive technology advantage over the Russians and in there paranoid minds, it disturbs them endlessly. So when oil stops flowing and we have our moment of weakness watch the Russian bear awaken with the power of the atom. If such does indeed occur, we must not only annihalate them in return but extend the conflict to conquer their entire nation afterward to guarantee their destructive culture and attitudes never can resurface again.
Interesting ideas.
What religion are they tied to?
After 9/11 we were on a roll with the new Russia, Putin did a lot of accommodating, Rice did zilch.
The next president will have to to be realistic, and come to terms with the new Russia. We are both basically large powerful Christian countries with too much in common to be 'promoting' a potential catastrophe.
Only if they're on a suicide mission, because if that ever happened "the Motherland" would cease to exist in under an hour. Literally.
The Russians are many things, a lot of them not so complimentary. But unlike Islamist nutballs they're not suicidal.
I saw what you describe in a movie once about 25 years ago. The movie was called “red dawn”.
I can’t believe that’s been a quarter century already.