Sometimes I think people really understate how much of an enemy Russians are. They straight up are trying to kill our troops. These aren’t our friends.
The Russians are just repaying the favor, we did the same thing to them in Afghanistan. It's Trump's supplicant behavior towards Russia and Putin that has always been the scandal.
When were the Russians even in Afghanistan?
I rather doubt that, since modern Russia didn't even exist until 1991, years after that Soviet-Afghan war ended.
If the Russian and the Soviets are held to be the same thing (which they technically and legally are not), then Donald Trump is not just doing business with and sucking up to a sometime global rival with a shady government, he's actively aligned himself with a nation and government that have been the open enemies of American and democracy since the end of World War II. That, in turn, would make him (and all the Republicans supporting him) flat-out traitors, rather than just a despicable band of bigoted fascists.
**Sigh** Not only does the current Russian state claim Soviet achievements such as the Victory in World War II and the Space Program as crucial to its legitimacy, much as they were to the USSR's, Russia has declared itself and is near-universally recognized as the legal successor state to the Soviet Union.
