After WWII successfully concluded for the Allies, Stalin moved in to permanently occupy Eastern Europe and threatened more communist expansionism. Russia was not a friend but an enemy under communism. Things have been different since Reagan. Putin may be pretty much a dictator, but he's genuinely trying to get his nation's culture to move in a direction that is not that of the despotic Western globalist Julius Caesar was doing a lot of needful political reforms when he assumed power too - and it deeply angered the corrupt Deep State of his day. In the time frame, Caesar wielding the power he did was really the only way to break the log jam. His nephew Augustus carried on and did far far more and the reign of Augustus was the most prosperous time of the Roman Empire.