Actually I sort of admire Russians.
We should as a nation, IMHO, to a certain extent “gang up” on China.
Just to a certain extent though. Don’t entirely trust them yet.
You are really on to something. The US and Russia should gang up on China, and more importantly, together project a strong united front against radical islam.
Future historians will say that one of the reasons the West fell is that the US picked at Russia, lectured it on human rights, instead of forging a strong alliance.
Putin is no choir boy. But he is not the threat. Radical islam is, and Putin should be our unquestioned ally.