FDR called Stalin “Uncle Joe” and Truman ceded half of Europe at Yalta.
That is at least an alliance.
I am not thrilled with Russia, but Zelensky is bad news.
As a Catholic, I know a Russian takeover of Ukraine would not be good for Ukrainian Catholics. I know the USSR starved millions if Ukrainians on purpose.
I don’like half a million men from both sides dying when the end result will not be materially different than ig Ukraine settled before the bulk of the war.
I do not see it as being in anyone’s legitimate interest to expand NATO.
I do not see authoritarian Russia as being identical with Communist run USSR.
You sure work hard at this America and Russia buddies thing with your pleasantry about Stalin and the free world not being strong enough to free the rest of Europe from the Russian grasp in the long ago WWII period.