Healing  the relationship with the Russian government is apparently one item on the Trump agenda, and it has strategic import. From the Russian perspective, in historic terms when the Germans invaded back in 1941, the concern with the eastern front, then facing the potential enemy of Japan, Stalin had to maintain a large force in case of Japanese invasion, once the threat was diminished, the Siberian divisions were brought to bear on the Germans at which point the writing was on the wall for the Germans. Nowadays, the Chinese have a military that could potentially mount a serious threat to Russia, such that any concern with the threat from Nato, is a joke. On the American side, the real concern has to be from China, and the balance of power from a U.S. perspective, with Russia on side, looks much more favourable from both the U.S. and Russian points of view. Anybody agree?