My point is that sometimes countries make alliances with bad countries. The US has also made alliances with bad actors out of stupidity or worse. We also abandon allies at the wrong time. With originally tried to do business with Castro . . . bad idea, he wasn’t an agrarian reformer. He was a commie. We abandoned Diem in Vietnam because we thought he was a political liability. Also bad idea. Things went downhill from there.
Your point is that USSR/Russia makes alliances consistently with bad actors in peace and war.
I am not going to make a distinction between allies and buddies. I think there are only alliances, and no permanent ones.
I think Putin is some good mixed with a lot of bad. I wouldn’t trust him with a ring off my finger. I do NOT think that Russia equals the USSR (regional versus worldwide hegemony, nationalism versus Marxism).
I think Zelensky is a bad guy who happens to be the political head of a country that needs someone better. I am doubtful about the legitimacy of his position. I despise the fact that Ukraine has been a tool for Biden.
I cannot imagine a scenario where Russia does NOT get the Russian speaking portion of Ukraine. I believe this war has weakened both countries greatly, and that the world is worse for those hundreds of thousands of killed soldiers.
“”””Your point is that USSR/Russia makes alliances consistently with bad actors in peace and war.””””
That isn’t my point, it is the same buddies and the same shared enemy.
My point is what I have posted “those are Russia’s buddies and nothing changes, and when they are involved in wars, Russia helps them, and vice versa, you have seen it since perhaps before you were born but at least all your life and you are seeing it now, those countries have an enduring relationship and underlying commonality with Russia.”
“Yet generation, after generation, there they are, buddies, working against their common enemy and even fighting shoulder to shoulder against it in wars.”