Between 1992 and the early 2000s, the United States provided over $20 billion in aid to post-Soviet Russia. The Cold War is the only war where the presumed winner paid reparations to the loser without requiring any concessions, a Nuremberg-type trial, disarmament, or ideological cleansing. Even today the US is still paying the reparations in the form of military aid to Ukraine. There’s no end in sight now that Russia has its sights on the Baltics and beyond.
Contrast this to how Germany was (very deservedly) treated after losing WWII. Yes, there was the Marshall Plan but only after Nuremberg, de-ideologization, executions of the complicit, and the splitting in two.
What kind of a win is it when you get absolutely nothing and end up on the hook for endless cash infusions? What kind of a win entails the opponent still financing every regime hostile to you around the world?
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Supporting Germany historicaly made sense in the face of the Soviet threat.
Russia no longer poses any credible non-nucear threat to the US.
Trump has pointed out that Europe, especially Germany, has taken advantage of US security guarantees to compete with US products, an obvious example being their auto industry as well as Airbus.
By this logic, it makes sense for the US to support Russia in order to force Europe to focus on defense rather than competitive industries.
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