[Sirius Lee]

Right, maybe we could have turned nazi Germany into an ally?

We turned post-nazi Germany into an ally. We could easily have turned post-soviet Russia into one. That is the point which appears to escape you.

Neoconunists are more aligned with the soviet top-down police state model of governance than the system of limited power and checks and balances which our Founding Fathers bequeathed to us.

[tlozo]

We turned post-nazi Germany into an ally. We could easily have turned post-soviet Russia into one. That is the point which appears to escape you.

LOL, we "turned" post-nazi Germany into an ally by causing devastating losses to nazi Germany, which ended their imperial ambitions forever. Hint, hint

[Salohcin]

It’s very unlikely that we could have turned Russia under Putin into an ally. Putin has never accepted that the breakup of the USSR was legitimate.