I agree as well, Russia can be the best ally we have against Islam if we quit treating as a defeated nation. I don’t know what Putin thinks but I can easily understand the average Russian lamenting the loss of power and influence it once had, I’m sure that’s what many of them miss, not the SU itself.
That’s why I was so pissed over the us intervention in Georgia, its their back yard and pissing them off gets us nowhere.
Russia supports islam against the USA. Russia supports all of America's jihadist enemies. Russia is more muslim than Europe already. Russia is over 20% muslim and their army will soon be majority muslim. The Russian invasion of Georgia was Russian muslims invading Christian Georgia. Under Putin sharia law has been instituted in Chechnya and the Chechens have built the biggest mosque in Europe. KGB Putin has repeatedly said that Russia is islam’s best friend in the world and that Russia will never make any holy alliance with western civilization against islam.