{"id":211194,"date":"2022-05-09T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=211194"},"modified":"2022-05-09T03:39:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T02:39:55","slug":"why-should-russia-and-the-united-states-be-enemies-when-they-have-a-240-year-history-of-international-friendship-and-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/05\/why-should-russia-and-the-united-states-be-enemies-when-they-have-a-240-year-history-of-international-friendship-and-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Should Russia and the United States Be Enemies When They Have a 240-Year History of International Friendship and Support?"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 25 marked the 77th<\/sup> anniversary of the \u201cOath of the Elbe,\u201d when U.S. and Russian soldiers embraced in a historic meeting on the Elbe River in Torgau, Germany, to mark the final end of the Third Reich and pledge mutual understanding, empathy and peaceful relations between the U.S. and Soviet Union.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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U.S. and Soviet troops embrace on the Elbe River on April 25, 1945, to celebrate their defeat of Nazism. [Source: history.com]<\/p><\/div>7 May 2022 – <\/em>Despite today\u2019s hysterical hostility towards Russia\u2014fomented by U.S. corporate interests, implemented by opportunistic politicians, and enflamed by a complicit mass media\u2014the Russian and American people have a long tradition of friendship and mutual support.<\/p>\n

A Suppressed History <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Long forgotten is a history of U.S.-Russian cooperation that goes back to the era of Catherine the Great who supported the American revolution.<\/p>\n

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Catherine the Great [Source: wikipedia.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Believing that the American colonists were right<\/a>, Catherine refused a request by King George for 20,000 Russian troops to help crush the revolution<\/a>. King George subsequently tried to bribe Catherine by offering an island of Menorca in the Mediterranean Sea in exchange for convincing France to exit the war and thus forcing the American rebels to fight alone. Again, however, the offer was turned down<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Franklin Pierce [Source: constitutionus.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

During the Crimean War in the 1850s, when Russia was invaded by Britain, France and Turkey, President Franklin Pierce sent arms and munitions, as well as engineers and doctors, to assist the Russians<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Russia returned the favor during the American Civil War (1861-1865), when Abraham Lincoln called for Russian help because Great Britain and France began supporting the Southern Confederacy in an attempt to destabilize and weaken the United States.<\/p>\n

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Cartoon depicting Abraham Lincoln and Russian Czar Alexander II shaking hands as fighting rages all around them. [Source: usrussiarelations.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Russians sent the Imperial Navy\u2019s flagship, Alexander Nevsky<\/em>, along with four other vessels into New York harbor four days after the Union defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga as a warning for the British and French to back off\u2014which they did.[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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Russian Imperial Navy\u2019s flagship, Alexander Nevsky<\/em>, sailing into New York harbor as depicted in Harper\u2019s Weekly<\/em>. [Source: boweryboyshistory.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles wrote in his diary afterwards: \u201cGod Bless the Russians,\u201d while future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., a Union army lieutenant, wrote a song about \u201cthe nation who was our friend when the world was our foe.\u201d[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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