Nor has the US aligned with Russia. Choosing to stop wasting billions of dollars propping up a Ukrainian dictator is hardly aligning with Russia. The US should be auditing the money dumped in Ukraine.
To some extent it's fine if you want become a shithole country like those mentioned, but to insist at the same time that you maintain membership of the West and retain its mantle as its leader (or even more laughable, as "leader of the free world", that's far too much. You're not a Western country. Culturally far, far closer to an eastern despotic one, these days.
> US has always been Europe's big brother
History began in 1945 to you?