[ansel12]

My dad fought the Germans, and I was jumping out of their airplanes, and Russia has been our enemy for at least 85 years, and is today.

[Leaning Right]

My dad fought the Germans, and I was jumping out of their airplanes, and Russia has been our enemy for at least 85 years

That's an interesting observation. The Germans have gone from being our mortal enemies to being our close allies. Yet the Russians have been nothing but adversaries (I will count the 1941-1945 period as a temporary truce).

There was no reasoning with the Soviets. But I wonder...after the fall of the Berlin Wall, could the West have done anything to turn the Russians away from an adversarial relationship with the West? Your thoughts?

(And I ask that with no preconceived notions.)