"Putin will do whatever he can to help keep the region destabilized. He has never been our friend and far as I, and many others I'm sure, are concerned the old Russia never died, they just took on newer clothing."
To be exact, by "Old Russia" you probably mean "Old USSR". "Old Russia" is referred to Russian Empire which had mostly a good relations with the US until Bolsheviks took the empire over in 1917 and turned it into the USSR after winning the Russian Civil War.
oh geez, ok, I stand corrected. "Old USSR."