My theory is that the neocons, being ex Trotskyite Communists, even though they have moved on from their Communist origins, have inherited the Trotskyite hostility to Russia - no matter what the issue or who is in charge.
"Trotskyite hostility to Russia"
You mean Trotskyite hostility to the USSR/Stalin. What they did to him was a good wakeup call to conservatives and Communists alike. Too bad they assassinated him, he would have ratted them all out if he had lived a little longer--TTS