morals and ideals.

Shitting on Russia is popular propaganda, that "we" always believe because we've always shit on Russia (except perhaps when Yeltsin was giving the country away to US backed oligarchs). Every lie is true because we unquestionably believed every previous lie. There is only pure demonism instead of "moral high ground" in diminishing other countries. "Liberal supremacy ideals" that give us the right to destroy "less liberally ideal" societies is not significantly different than right wing ethnic supremacism.

Instead of fixating on "those American indoctrinated ideals that the US used to have", waking up to "The US has declared war on Canada", and ending our enemy relationship to the US's enemy is step 1 in defending ourselves. That you hope Europe will be closer friends with us, is a nice thing to hope for, but all NATO colonies cowering in fear and not doing anything together is not an effective alliance. A sewing circle for the abused wives club waiting for big daddy to come into the room, and then point at each other over who should be ravaged is not the best defense.