Largely because Bush pere and the rabidly anti-Communist American classe politique who gave us containment, Korea, Vietnam, and the Taliban were all way too gleeful to publicly dig and dance on the grave of the old Russian Empire, most of what the Soviets still had of it split off with the fall of Communism.
That created the vast well of Russian resentment that powers Putin's strongman regime and the wide appeal, among Russians, of dinging America in world politics.
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