[higgmeister]

That's essentially my point: you support something simply to oppose your domestic political opponents, even if it means supporting a foreign enemy.

Pierre, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia's abject bankruptcy and devastation, Russia was no longer my enemy and still isn't.   I cannot understand how a bytehead from Chicago should call them an enemy either.

[pierrem15]

I cannot understand how a bytehead from Chicago should call them an enemy either.

Because they are: they say they are and they act like it.

As I said elsewhere, Russia is just returning to its historical mean of being a empire where its ruling class derives legitimacy from the loot it can extract by conquest and how many subject peoples it can oppress.