Blame that on Roosevelt’s influence. He was a great admirer of Uncle Joe. Churchill tried to warn him, but toward the end, Roosevelt ignored Churchill and buddied up with Stalin. He was always a lefty and even had a budding Commie as his veep until the last election when he realized his veep could hurt his reelection, so he changed a pro Commie for a haberdasher.
We “fought” the Cold War so don’t say we never fought the USSR. We won, as I recall. The USSR exists no more.
The USSR is gone but being cobbled back together, while we have a communist president. This isn’t 1989 anymore...