WHY Russia Saved the United States: The Forgotten History of a Brotherhood
Why did Russia’s Czar Alexander II deploy the Russian navy to the coasts of the USA during the height of the Civil War in 1863? Why dynamic shaped the rise of the great rail building traditions across Russia, the USA, Germany, Japan and France in the 19th ...
Russia had a Civil brewing of its own with Poland. Russia was trying to suck the United States into coming to fight with Russia. As would eventually become clear to however, the motive behind the unexpected appearance of tsarist navy squadrons in New York and San Francisco during the third autumn of the Civil War was much less generous than it initially appeared to Secretary Welles. That motive had little to do with support for the Union in the bloody contest between North and South, and much to do with tensions in Europe.
At the time, there was still the possibility of stronger support, if not Britain's entry into the war on the side of the CSA. Russia prevented this through its actions. Why? Revenge for the Crimean War perhaps?
A hero of the Revolutionary War, John Paul Jones, served Catherine the Great as an Admiral in the Russian Navy while retaining his US citizenship.
...politics make strange bedfellows...
I would call Christian Russia and Christian America natural allies, not strange bedfellows. It was only the jewish led Bolsheviks and communism that drove a wedge between our two nations. This was done purposely and with intent. I think CaptainChris' characterization is off the mark.
...wags tail agreeably...