I’ll meet ya halfway, how’s that, which is what the Soviet forces did. ;-)
Operation Barbarossa wasn’t exactly a stellar success either.
I just find it incredibly strange that the US is once again and always has been seen as the enemy by those very people whose rights to exist we also fought and sacrificed so many good men and women for.
Sorry, I gotta side with the Ruskies on this one.
Russia has been attacked many times in history by her neighbours on or near her western border (Poland, Germany, France, Sweden, etc.) - and she (Russia) has always been nervous and suspicious of her western neighbours intentions.
Now we want to install a "missle defence" system in Russia's western neighbours near the Russian border.
C'mon, would you want China to install and man a missle defence system in Mexico, Canada and/or Cuba near America's borders??????????..
If we were Ruskies, we'd like to do what Putin has done except we'd never get Congress to agree on anything - so nothing would get done.