Did you miss the so called Cold War as well ? Did you not hear of the Russian weapons that killed 58,000+ American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines in Vietnam ? Have you not heard Putin often exclaim that the breakup of the political state that started the Cold War and supplied the weapons for proxy wars, the breakup of that state, the USSR, was a tragedy? No amount of holy bended knee in an Orthodox cathedral can make Putin into anything other that what he is , a Stalinist commisar seeking power.
I believe the issue we had was with the Soviets.