autocracy, but they don't care about that right now the u.s. is supporting saudi arabia, ud one of the world's worst dictatorships in bombing civilians in yemen. so. it wasn't about that .hat they didn't like the fact that trump was calling for better relations with russiaik and they didn't likee the fact that russia that trump also was criticizingg on the campaign trail in office. he was much different on the campaign trail. he was criticizing foreign intervention like in syria and they had an animus towards russia because russia is a deterrent to u.s. hegemony. russia can fight back . it's a nuclear power it pushedne back in ukraine when the u.s. launched a coup with joe biden's heavy involvement along with along with victoria nuland who's back in power now under biden. it counted a by taking crimea and in syria to the u.s. was on the side of sectarian death squads like al-qaida. as jake sullivan wrote toae hillary clinton ten yearsda ago, he wrote al-qaida is on our side in syria and russia took the different side. russia took the side of the government of bashar al at. d and that side won so that is fueled this heavy climate of animus towards russia in washingtonli.