I'm sorry if this seems like a dumb question, but my history education was severely lacking and there is a lot I don't know
From what I understand, the US and Russia are both capitalist but they both oppose each other, while there seems to be greater cooperation between the US and EU + Britain. Why's this the case? I would extend this question out to China but from what I understand from the struggle sessions is that we don't fully know yet where China stands (feel free to correct me)
Again I'm sorry if this all sounds dumb, I'm very ignorant of history and of the world outside the US
Russia has an enormous nuclear arsenal. The US doesn't get to tell them what to do. The US doesn't like when countries don't do what they'd like.
It comes more from a place of 'i want to exploit those people instead of you' place than ideology