The United States and Russia have been long-standing powerful nations, their relations marked by specific periods of cooperation and disunity. In this essay, I will go through the relations between the United States and Russia from the Cold War to the Ukraine War and what led up to our current geopolitical situation. During the Cold War era, there were clear ideological differences between the United States (US) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The US believed in capitalism...