I have never been Russiaphobic, in fact... I think the USA and Russia have a lot in common and could end up being great friends, if they so wanted to.
With the exception of Alaska we aren't even that close to each other either and that part of Russia isn't really heavily populated.
The only issue I've ever had with them was when they invaded the Ukraine and stole Crimea and the only reason I had an issue with that is because of the treaty the USA, Russia and the UK signed in order for the Ukraine to give up their nukes. Had that treaty not existed, I wouldn't have cared one bit... but hey so what if treaties the USA agrees to don't have any backing behind them anymore, just means whoever can ignore all treaties going forward, they mean nothing. The USA isn't trustworthy to live up to its treaties, so big deal. The rest of the world knew that after that incident that any treaty the US signs is worthless... same for Russia and the UK. All treaties from those countries are worthless.
Basically it means that treaty was a fake out, oh you're territory will remain intact... few decades later, ha... fooled you.
However it did seem like the Democrats had an obsession with Russia starting in 2016 or so... at least that has died off now for a bit.
Far as I'm concerned the US should not worry about what the rest of the world is doing and focus on our own massive internal issues. Stop being the worlds policeman and let people decide if they want Democracy themselves.
Even countries that are a threat, that attack the US... should only be invaded enough to cause chaos, remove the leadership that cause the problem and leave... let the people pick up the pieces. That is what should of happened with Afghanistan after 911, just go in kill em all and abandon them. No need to stick around, let them devolve into chaos, starvation and back into dictatorship.
Then again if the USA would stop intervening, then other countries wouldn't feel the need to attack the US.
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We're not, but the cold war left hefty scars for us... However, it's mostly the left and Democrats, they used to have a good thing going with Putin, but they needed to get him into a compromising position so that they could control him or at least ensure his cooperation. They tried everything, even invited him to certain... events but he never showed, likely due to his past as KGB operative who knows the tricks politicians and governments play. I'm on a Russian dating site, I have no issues with the Russian people, just their leaders, like I do with every country including the US.
I think it just stems from the whole cold war and red scare thing that can be dated back to early 1900’s. Especially America government and mccarthyism in the 60s and the whole soviet union cold war, I think americans have just learnt from the past and keep their issues and don’t learn. Americans are very anti a lot of things
Okay, FIRST, that bullshit about Syria… Syria is engaged in a CIVIL WAR, the United States did NOT do that to Syria, so clearly you just hate the US. Therefore, there is little point in answering your question in earnest!
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It’s not just the US that is wary about Russia, Europe has had a very long distrust of both Russian Empire, the USSR and current Russia.
they have a number of long term goals, warm sea naval ports which they pretty much have wrapped up, once Ukraine is sorted.
Russia wants to regain specific territories that were once part of the USSR, ones it sees as legitimately belonging to them.
that includes all Warsaw Pact countries, Ukraine, Baltic states and some of the ‘stans.
The US have basically inherited the mantle of stopping Russian expanison.
it’s not like Russia is going to free these countries lol.
Nato runs QRA CAP from the likes of Lithuania to protect them from Russian aggression.
since 1945, NATO including the US have prevented Russia from dictating to other countries and spreading communism. Now that Communism is pretty much dead and seen to fail, it’s all about energy, political connections, etc.
also Russia still sees Germany as its natural enemy and a huge amount of its military arsenal is aimed at European warfare.
it will carry out as much as possible via proxy, such as supporting Iran, Syria but only when in its interest and will happily stab them.
the planned invasion of Ukraine is being watched closely, as its believed this will form part of Russia’s first strike capability using Cyber Warfare as a first strike weapon.Legacies of the Cold War, mostly; in any society, the real movers and shakers tend to the be those who are old enough to have learned how to do it. It's been thirty years, but when you grow up hearing that another people is in league with the devil, it takes not merely time but actual effort to dislodge that belief. And since there's not much interest in doing that...
Additionally, if you take a look at a topographical map, you'll see that the 350 miles between Warsaw and Moscow is pretty much just a flat plain; it's always been very hard to defend, and so Russian leadership pretty much HAS to be at least somewhat saber-rattly. Does that excuse everything that Putin's done? No. But it helps explain the mindset. Russia, at this point, is really just a regional power- it's just a really, REALLY big region. Putin's hardly a Soviet Revanchist, but he DOES want to see his country return to a position of greater strength and prestige.
The bigger issue, though, is manipulation. The two easiest groups of people to manipulate are those who are angry, and those who are scared. Convincing Americans that Russia (or Putin) is a great and powerful boogeyman is an excellent way to do that.They were for a long time an ally of sorts with America, but then they let the commies in the door in the 1920s and that’s when relations started to slip… The Nazis were a counter balance to the commies for a bit, but they were fucking nuts so we had to clean that mess up. Then the Russians got all paranoid thinking we were going to nuke them, so one thing lead to another… Russians were the aggressors in the Cold War. While we were sitting on German rocket scientists to prevent them for doing evil genius stuff, Russia thought we were trying to kill them so they started developing ICBMs to try and wipe us off the planet… The USSR was trying for global domination spreading communist revolutions to neighbors creating a lot of instability and hardship… Naturally America had to respond. After the USSR crumbled we thought you might be turning a corner for the better, but now you basically have a dictator and most of the nation talks about bringing communism back… So it seems like a bad movie sequel in the making… I think Russia is less of an issue than China, but it’s sad to see you guys slide back towards communism even if Putin is taking a strong stand against the WEF’s Great Reset.
America is not Russiaphobic. America does tend to have a problem with Russia, and like countries, invade and take over land areas that don't belong to them, and fund and send soldier to fight in wars to take over land, so a leader friendlier to Russia can take over, or to allow the annexation of more land for Russia, from it's neighbors. America also tends to not like it when Russia poisons dissidents and political opponents to Putin. America also tends to not like it when Russia interferes with our elections. Etc.
I didn't like Trump all that much as a character, but he did well under many aspects, one of which was to retract the USA's hands from all over the world and put them back in the US' pockets. Good deals with China, good relationship with Moscow... World peace obtainment in motion. Good stuff.
First thing the new "democratic" government does, go back in war. Sorry, but that's not what a democracy does. That's what expansionist, imperial, authoritarian countries do.
Yet the people who voted for it are against all of this, as their braindead blabbering openly state on a daily basis.
I don't understand anymore. But at this point I'm rooting for Russia and China to join forces and make a disaster.I don't think we are Russia phobic I think we might be Putin phobic and that's just because Putin has hidden agendas I believe p u t i n wants to be this big shot that takes over the world he wants to be seen as a sex symbol as a as a rock star was to be bigger than he is and that's just so wrong it's unreal I think Putin could have 10 times to respect that he does if you wouldn't do the things that he does he is the a type of guy that will act like nothing is wrong and then sucker punch you and that time is coming between them and China one of them are going to do it the thing is we're going to find that who is the baddest who is the smartest and who has the bigger balls and who's going to be the boldest I personally like Russian people I like all people I don't like any leaders including my own
Trumps best friend was Putin so a president of Usa was best friends with the president of Russia.
It's not really they hate russia. Otherwise why would trump be best friends with putin? and why would conservatives be okay with that if they hate russia?
They just hate communism which just so happens comes from Russia and set up camp there with the leaders like Stalin.Because Russia is one of the few independent countries that won't buckle down and do whatever the U. S. tells it to do, or let the U. S. do whatever it wants. And since Russia is (economically) weaker and less influential internationally than China today , it's easier to focus on them.
America loved Yeltsin's Russia in the 1990s, and praised him when he sent tanks to shoot parliament for daring to impeach him (sure made the Jan. 6 Capitol storming look tame huh). He kissed ass, destroyed the economy, and did nothing when the U. S. invaded Iraq and bombed Serbia. Putin reversed much of that disaster, and calls the U. S. out on its bu*****t abroad.
Bullies don't like it when their expected victims stand up to them.Because the Americans know how criminal Russia is and want to get rid of this monster.
Also, the former communist countries confirmed and affirmed the terror they went through because of Russia and the poverty that is found in our countries is due only to Russia.We Americans are just a bunch of fat people who love exporting freedom and democracy abroad. The same freedom and democracy we don't have at home.
China and Russia don't like our values so we don't like them too. They need the freedom and democracy that by the way we don't have at home.Because Russia has been hostile toward America for decades, we were engaged in the cold war with them, we've both threatened each other with nuclear annihilation, Russia floods America with propaganda, and hacks into American systems such as the 2016 presidential election, which resulted in 4 years of turmoil and hardship in the U. S., which could further be linked to the 562k deaths (and counting) from covid, due to their 2016 election interference.
Perhaps because Russia, like the USSR before it has been run like the Mafia and has at every turn looked for excuses to attack our interests. Our only real mistake with Russia/USSR since WWII is we should have let them have Afghanistan.
Russia, as a majority-white country that is a geopolitical rival with no lobbying influence in Washington DC, is an acceptable bogeyman to the CCP's US branch (AKA the Democratic Party). Democratic politicians are either on the CCP's payroll, their friends or family members are, or they're compromised by the CCP. That's why Russia is the bogeyman of choice and not the CCP, which is far more dangerous to the people of the US.
Because they are small minded and covet what the Soviet Union had : legitimacy.
American is an illegitimate child of Europeans, fed steroids and hope, to be our mercenary.
But it serves little purpose in the world these days, other than as a feeder state.
Sad, really.We're not. That's just the Mainstream Media's bullshit boogeyman response to anything related to conservatives. Since Liberals are in bed with Communist China and are traitorous pieces of shit who hate America, they blame everything on Russians. Most Americans couldn't care less about Russia, good or bad. The far-left media just likes to shit on Russia.
Not all Americans, though some of my ancestry had conflicts, I can say Russian women are hot. We proved ourselves superior to Russia, though sadly not all Americans. Nothing to fear from Russia. There is a sense of dualism with the Cold War that carries a certain zeitgeist. It is funny now, but was a serious and feared reality then. We had our nukes, they had their nukes, we had our spies, they had their spies, we had our secret weapons, they had their secret weapons, Astronauts, and Cosmonauts. The whole mirrored reality is a weird feeling, but theirs was faux reality (even as some of their nukes) that eventually shattered.
Because of the past, Russia put nukes 90 miles off the Florida coast. During the Cold War! That is
Something the youth are kept in the dark about. They think Hitler got us into WWII not true!
It was Japan.Because of the deep state that is brainwashing people, through the media and through its education system. Really, what exactly distinguishes the United States from Russia? Both are white, European, Christian nations. They are practically a civilization - the European Christian civilization. The United States and Russia are natural allies. The problem is globalists who want to destroy such values as nation, religion, civilization, family, traditions, and turn all people into an impersonal, stupid amorphous mass to create a global dictatorship. They want to destroy both the United States and Russia, they want to liquidate nations, that's all.
Probably because of the oppressive regimes that have ruled Russia, and for a while eastern Europe, since Stalin.
Because they tried to destroy our country by installing trump as dictator?
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