Interesting comment. Do you say that because they are entangled with Putin?
And if they are not on our team, whose team are they on? They are certainly not pro-islamic, so I'm guessing you see a three-way situation here.
Personally, I see Putin as a bully. But the islamists as a major threat to civilization as a whole. And that is many, many levels above bully. So, yeah, I (for now) see the Orthodox Christians/Putin as natural allies more than anything else.
I see modern Russia as more akin to the Russian Empire, than with the Soviet Union. And here is some perspective on what Russian-US ties were then, I see no reason why they can’t be today what they were back then....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire%E2%80%93United_States_relations
I watched a Muslim cleric speak of Islamic Escatology. He differentiated between the western group because of their failure to follow the commandments—he used gay marriage as an example. He dismissed ISIS as criminals and hypocrites. He stated the in the end times Islam would stand side by side with the true Christian church.
I didn’t buy a lot of his stuff, but that phraseology was interesting.