So let me see if I have this right.
The Soviets (Russians) were our allies in World War II, and they made very significant sacrifices in terms of humans killed to fight Nazi Germany. And then after the war, because they stole the secret of atomic weapons (?), they became America's mortal enemy and are still America's mortal enemy 74 years later? Is that right? I know socialism plays into this but that ended in 1991, and they are still America's enemy.
it's in America's best interest to remain in conflict with those who do not have America's interests at heart
Ya I agree that it is sorta a nutty timeline, but if you read The White Pill by Michael Malice it highlights just how atrocious the form of communism was under Stalin. May be worse than Hitler’s Germany or at least as bad given the length of time that the whole nation was under the most intense forms of psychological torture. Not sure how aware the US was of it all at the time, but those ideals could have played a role in us opposing them in such a harsh manner.
I used to think that. It was atrocious. Read the Gulag Archipeligo too. Horrible shit. But that shit is over, so it can't be that.
Solzhenitsyn is not a source you can trust. But there was enough shit in the Soviet Union even without labor camps. That's why this country no longer exists.
Any power threatening hegemony of the US over the last 100 years became the enemy. The western world has lived by extracting value out the other countries over at least 50 years, so any other major power rising would destroy that flow. There are many positives from the "west", but we should also be real about the negatives...
Read Antony Sutton
The USSR was a pretend enemy propped up by Western tech transfers.
The Soviet invasion route into Afghanistan was laid out and built by the army corps of engineers
Tragedy and Hope, Quigley
Putin was ready to become America's "friend" (he's always liked everything Western), but the CIA for some reason created instability in Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Ukraine and most importantly took away Putin's favorite toy "economic cooperation project with Germany".
As a result they just pushed Russia closer to China and turned Europe into a circus.
One might believe the fairy tale that Putin is evil and Americans are not friends with evil, except there's also Saudi Arabia 😅 or China (main trading partner of the U.S.)
Russia could have been integrated into Europe and the West after the fall of the communist dictatorship, but its leaders chose to stay outside and basically become free to pillage and loot a country of immense natural resources and a docile population.
No, they became America’s enemy because they were an expanding nation with the intention to “free” all the workers of the world and had a track record of genociding the people that they conquered along the way.
