Russian President (for the past 14 years) Vladimir Putin came to the conclusion years ago that the West (particularly the US, which once enjoyed full control over all NATO countries), will never accept a strong Russia. Putin expressed his opinion that the fundamental barrier was the Americans' unshakeable belief that their social system was the best and the only choice for other countries. Russian society (history and culture) and American exceptionalism are fundamentally incompatible.
Since 1889, the US has a history of military domination, by involving itself in foreign conflicts whenever another state threatens to achieve hegemony in a region. Four examples should serve:
Imperial Germany during World War I
Nazi Germany during World War II
Imperial Japan during World War II
The Soviet Union during the Cold War
Putin had to accept this reality: The US will do anything it can to keep Russia from achieving its own version of the American Dream. And that's true for every other nation the United States wants to keep in a subservient role.
Canada is waking up to that reality now. And, remember the old adage: there is no enemy like a friend betrayed.
Charles
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