To the great surprise and disappointment of the USA and European powers, the former USSR (now Russia) developed atom bomb in 1949 within four years of the USA dropping two atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, killing and maiming millions of Japanese.
Germany started World War I as well as World War II and carried out annihilation, holocaust, and destructions all over the world. Why did not the USA drop atom bomb on Berlin, the GHQ of the German hordes, but instead dropped two atom bombs on a less dangerous and weak Japan?
Immediately after World War II, the USA and the USSR, who fought shoulder to shoulder against the German forces, stood apart for their respective gains, socio-economic and political ideology and military strategy.
The USA and some of its allies in Europe did not like the economic and scientific prosperity, rise in military power and the influence of the USSR in international affairs.
The USA and its allies in Europe started conspiring and creating division, disunity and mistrust among the Soviet leaders.
After the demise of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, forceful retirement of Nikita Krushchev in 1964, followed by the power struggle between Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin, the USSR plunged into darkness and disintegrated in 1990.
The great USSR was fragmented and sub-divided, Warsaw Pact was dismantled, Yugoslavia was cut into pieces and the former USSR, now Russia, lost its credibility as world superpower.
Russia (former USSR) and the USA have never waged war against one another but they have confronted, disputed, criticised and condemned each other on many issues. They are good chess players in international political affairs.
In the midst of Washington-Moscow charges and counter charges, we are afraid if long outstanding and explosive issues like US backed Israeli occupation of Palestine, US occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, US “war” on terrorism, US-Iran tension, will further strain the relations between the two countries.