Well, excepting the &quot;freedom fries&quot; nonsense from a while back - the French have never really been portrayed as an enemy of the United States. Russia (and Putin especially) most certainly has. I&#x27;m guessing that generally the American population is discounting the deaths of innocent Russians to the same degree that it&#x27;s discounting the deaths of innocent Iraqis, Afghanis, Syrians, Palestinians, Yemeni, etc., etc., etc.