Rhetoric wars come and go, but Russia and the United States have never been in hand to hand combat as far as I know. Mother Russia would like to have our lunch, and likely vice versa, but when the wall fell, we were there with the big bucks to get Russia off to a good free world and free enterprise start. As a consequence, they have a number of multi-millionaires who learned the ropes quickly.
It's too bad the cold war went on such a long time. Both countries used each other on the silver screen to depict bad guys. Brilliant it wasn't.
Well, Russia was smart enough to help China when she was starving. We were too busy. If the US had been the mother of modern China, we wouldn't be fighting anywhere in the east today. China begged us to send help, to send missionaries, agricultural specialists, anything we had; they asked us for any help to get them out of feudalism. In the end it was Mao and the Soviets who did that.
Well, our church has been in China since 1844 through the present with food, medical, educational, and evangelical help. It's too bad that we only have 2,000,000 members nowadays. The day I graduated from high school, we had 7,000,000 members.
Presbyterian History of Missions to China Each time a monsoon hits the region, our women send what our missionaries tell us is needed.