[HereInTheHeartland]

“but once you are friends with Russia, they WILL stand by you.”

Just like the Mafia will stand by you; if they don’t kill you first!
The Russians are a bunch of thugs; the evil empire as Reagan said. There is ZERO to admire in them.

[Praxeologue]

The Russians are a bunch of thugs; the evil empire as Reagan said.

Reagan was anti-Communist, not anti-Russian. Reagan was not a racist. He was a U.S. patriot who opposed Communism, at home and abroad.