There is nothing new about military alliances forged in the face of shared threats or common foes, nor about how changing circumstances can alter the nature of an alliance over time.  It was, after all, Russia's shift from the West's ally in the fight against fascism, to its enemy, as the days of the Cold War dawned that provided the impetus for the formation of the fledgling North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) in the first place. 

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