On numerous occasions America's supposed ally, Russia, has taken stances that would seem odd for an ally of the United States or any free Western country.
For instance, Russia sells arms to Iran, Venezuela (ruled by a notorious enemy of American interests, Hugo Chavez), and China, whose totalitarian communist regime oppresses more people than the rest of the enslaved world combined. See these links: Sales to Iran, Russian arms sale to Chavez irks..., and Secretary Rice Concerned about arms sales to China. Russia continues to sell weapons to people that we consider to be our enemies. I don't know about you but if someone publicly threatened me or one of my friends, I would consider someone who armed him to be my enemy. Russia has done just that.
Russia goes further. They give comfort to our enemies. When Israel and the US threatened to cut off funding to Palestine if the Hamas-ruled government continued its belligerence, who invited Hamas to their capital? The Russians did, of course. Who always sides with our worst enemies in the UN? Russia does, of course. Who is sheltering the wife of a Serbian war criminal who is herself a criminal? Who is rushed to investigate the same war criminal's untimely if deserved death? (In the last linked article note the comment from one of the four Russian doctors who examined the results of the autopsy of Slobodan Milosevic's death.)
What I want to know, is why do we consider Russia an ally? Can you name one positive thing Russia has done to help the United States?
