[mkjessup]

The Russians are NEVER to be trusted...

Reagan trusted them. "Trust, but verify".

In World War II, we didn't particularly like Joe Stalin either, but he had one thing we needed, and that was a still formidable Red Army to stop Hitler in his tracks and turn back the Nazis. So we made him our ally. It didn't mean we approved of, or endorsed his behavior and how he abused and mistreated the Russian people.

The alternative would have been for Hitler to rule the Eurasian land mass from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Vladivostok would have ended up as an Axis seaport.

[Netz]

Yes, the CCCP was needed to defeat Hitler. True but all that aid permitted them to take over Eastern Europe and eventually build an A-Bomb. America was naive in 1944, now under President Ovomit, it's the same lousy poker hand all over again and this time, by choice!