9/4 Americans rarely elevate foreign political leaders into their own heroes but it did happen w Churchill who lead the fight against Hitler. And it happened again with Angela Merkel because she scornfully rejected Trump's call for more munitions for NATO and less gas from Russia.
“Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Monday that Moscow might increase its missile presence in the Pacific to respond to the THAAD deployment. Neither Russia nor China mentioned the missile defense deployment at the Security Council meeting, however.”