The Soviet Union was Communist, which at its core was oppositional to the U.S. because Communism – in its Marxist-Leninist roots – was fundamentally antagonistic to our free-enterprise, decentralized, representative democracy.

Today’s Russia, on the other hand, is nationalistic at its core. True, the leadership is centralized and wanting to stay in charge through non-democratic methods. But their actions are rooting in their perceived self-interest, which means that they are not basing their decisions primarily in reaction to the U.S. but rather what works best for them as they solve their problems and try to regain status as a major power.

Thus sometimes their interests line up with the U.S. and at other times (probably most) they don’t. But unlike their Soviet predecessors, they’re not reflexly anti-American.

After all, Russia on several occasions has been warning us (under Obama’s leadership) not to repeat the errors of the Soviet Union in terms of excessive central control. And they have been standing up to Islamic extremism.

Not to mention that a number of AGW skeptics have been Russian scientists, And probably they don’t want the U.N. or any other supranational organization laying down CO2 controls on them as they rebuild their economy. They are not dogmatic leftists – and they aren’t into national suicide.

So let’s accept help from any source we can get to save our own skins – and the freedom of the world from the AGW totalitarians who want to springboard from this hysteria to financial and political world dominance.