>To have an enemy, it may be necessary to create one. The Soviet Union was expansionist and a real threat to the West in a way that Russia was not after the USSR was dissolved in 1991. Therefore, the Deep State needed to stoke the fire.
>One way to have an enemy is to make and break promises to another country, and another is to position your weaponry on that nation’s doorstep. The United States did both with respect to Russia.
https://www.americasfuture.net/in-focus-the-deep-states-obsession-with-russia/
>Among the many traits the peoples of our two countries have in common, none is stronger than our mutual abhorrence of war. Almost unique among the major world powers, we have never been at war with each other. And no nation in the history of battle ever suffered more than the Soviet Union suffered in the course of the Second World War. At least 20 million lost their lives. Countless millions of homes and farms were burned or sacked. A third of the nation's territory, including nearly two thirds of its industrial base, was turned into a wasteland–a loss equivalent to the devastation of this country east of Chicago.
-President John F. Kennedy
https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/american-university-19630610
