Come on, that was the cold war.
America used to provide money, weapons and trainings to Mujahideens in Afghan and Pakistan.
No need to mention America-backed Pinochet regime, the war on left wingers in Chile was very bloody(massacre, torture,assassination.....)
Russophobe nuts are full of McCain’s old crap.
Yes, it was the Cold War, but it was an ideological war, above all.
Disagreements we have with Russia now are (at least on the surface) standard strategic, trade and special-interest disputes. Many reasons for the present poor state of relations with Russia may be on the USA side - the deep-state, military-industrial, Wall Street/Financial and of course, our own destructive leftist post-modern ideology are hiding a lot as well.
Post Nov 9 2016 we can see that the American Left are willing to play with very dangerous fire to maintain an absurd domestic political position
As mentioned, it probably fantasy, but I believe Putin could detonate much of this opposition by admitting and revealing the cultural war the Soviet Union waged on the West.