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And just imagine how hard life must be these days for Russia's Z-patriots. For decades, practically their entire lives, they tore their shirts open in patriotic fury, spewing the blackest hatred for America (while spending those same lives absolutely obsessed with American action movies, jeans, chewing gum, and music, and secretly dreaming of escaping to Brighton Beach one day). How many times did they parade around with cardboard mock-ups of missiles on their pathetic little boats, proudly bearing the words "To Washington!" How many years did they spend inventing the wildest, most convoluted conspiracy theories about how those "stupid Americans" were plotting to steal the precious natural resources buried somewhere around their miserable, backward Shitholesks? How many years did they spend salivating in front of their TVs over fantasies of reducing America to "radioactive ash"? How many years did they boast about "fighting all of America and all of NATO in Ukraine"? And then, just like that, BOOM! With a single snap of the fingers, they're ordered to make an instant 180-degree turn, practically get down on their knees and kiss the American flag, pretend that Russia, Trump, and China are now going to carve up the world among themselves as great allies, go absolutely wild with excitement on Kremlin TV because a REAL, LIVING AMERICAN has come to Moscow!!!! And he even ate CHEBUREKI!!! And now they're supposed to dutifully serve up all their diesel and "rare earth resources" to their new American ally on a silver platter. It's not easy, ladies and gentlemen. Not easy at all. Not even for such virtuosos of Orwellian doublethink as Soviet and Russian "patriots."