I don’t know what your problem is but my problem is that at the collapse of the Soviet Union we had an opportunity that had been fought for, for over 70 years at the expense of billions if not trillions of dollars. Idiots in our government totally botched that opportunity and as a result we ended up with the situation we have today with Russia and a man like Putin running it. It could have been different except for what was in my humble opinion and the opinion of many others, foreign policy toward the emerging Russia that was formulated by outright total and complete incompetent morons. The stupidity has not abated since they obviously know nothing about the insane paranoia of the Russians and how they would react toward missile systems in Eastern Europe. My guess is they knew exactly how they would respond and pushed the decision anyway to purposely cause more confrontation.
Putin may long for the good ‘ol days of the Soviet Union, but there are more than a few idiots here in America that long for the good ‘ol days of the cold war.
Fact is we COULD have had a friend and ally in Russia after the collapse but the wrong people obviously were in charge of policy and they had their heads stuck where the sun don’t shine.
I hope you were not one of them.
That’s a whole other topic.
The topic of this thread is whether it is appropriate to march US troops in a victory parade under the banners of a smiling Joseph Stalin. The Soviets were strange (and unfortunately necessary) bedfellows, nothing more.
Is Russia not preparing to make major moves on the world stage? Are they not building up every one of our enemies, including Chavez, the Castro bros, other Marxist dictatorships in Latin America, also Iran and Syria? Have they not pledged with the ChiComs to create a "new international order"? Are they not threatening their former satellites, i.e. Georgia?