Too bad DEM's ultra liberal faction depends on someone or something to hate.  

Russians were America's strongest ally against the Germany-Italy Nazi-fascist WWII machine.  Without Russia taking massive casualties, America and its allies would have been brutally defeated on Europe's side

Even though Bush II foolishly decided to help Islamic terrorists kill Russian soldiers in Afghanistan, Russia is the West's natural ally against ISIS-based terrorism.  Like us, they were fighting there because Islamic terrorists were killing their civilians. 

And Russia's people share our Western Civilization values.  The last picture of the Soviet Union's fall was an elderly babushka confronting a tank calling to its driver, in the affectionate diminutive of grandmother to grandson, to stop before crushing the crowd behind her.  An he could not overcome his upbringing to kill her. Plus Russians understand Church and State are Separate. While Islam is based on State being Church's enforcement arm