[tlozo]

You're problem is that you only see the evil of the USSR every time you see Russia, and you only see the good when you see the US.

Yup don't see any good in the USSR or Putin's attempt to whitewash their history or to revive it.

We clearly have enemies within our country and outside it. Russia, with its thousands of nuclear missiles aimed at us, is clearly an enemy.

[Robert DeLong]

We are the ones that started aiming them at the USSR, and that was justified. But when the USSR collapsed that was the time to bring Russia into our fold, not keep them ostracized on the outside. If you keep directing animosity at another nation, you leave them little choice but to accept that these people are enemies and nothing will change that.

If someone is belligerent to you, you will react accordingly to them in the same manner.

Or put another way, you will reap what you sow. If you sow hate you will reap hate in return.

[Cronos]

the Russian federation has made itself the enemy. There was/is no need, but Putin’s ambitions to conquer his neighbors led to the situation