*IMHO, one of the reasons Western civilization will eventually fall (and guess to who) is that we continuously antagonize the Russians instead of developing a deep strategic partnership with them.*
There was that pesky Communism thing going for a century or so. That kind of got in the way.
Still is, only now it’s our Communism getting in the way.
Right you are. It was next to impossible to form any sort of alliance with the old communist Soviet Union.
And it will be difficult to form any real alliance with the new semi-imperialistic Russia.
But it has to be done if the West is to push back the tide of muslim expansionism.
But it is not the policy of the USA to form such an alliance. Instead we preach to the Russians about civil rights in Russia. And we bring NATO right to their front door.
Crazy. Russia is not our long-term enemy.