You live in a former Soviet state?

'Cause it was Soviet tanks that rolled though these streets, not the American, British, or French ones.

Soviet war memorials aplenty around here, despite all the other evils that passed since then.

Good luck with Russia my friend.

The Soviets, not specifically the Russians.

Soviet puppets here got kicked out in turn back in 1989, and not obviously due to any help from the Western side of the Iron Curtain.

My commute takes me across the old line of the Soviet attempt at enforced isolation.

Enjoy. Hopefully America at least will go back to friendly with all, enemies to none.

"Back" implies you ever were so, and that you didn't get a surprise delivery to your Pacific fleet while they were in harbour.

When I was a kid, I wanted what you now hope for; sadly, experience taught me I can't be everyone's friend, that some will hate me no matter what while others are simply mutually exclusive.

If the US becomes friends with Russia as it is today, it can't be friends with half a dozen east europen countries; friendship with PRC precludes friendship with ROC; with Israel excludes Iran; with North Korea precludes South Korea, etc.

> If the US becomes friends with Russia as it is today, it can't be friends with half a dozen east europen countries; friendship with PRC precludes friendship with ROC; with Israel excludes Iran; with North Korea precludes South Korea, etc.

I don't want to be friends. Just friendly. Only friends with American interests