InflectionPointUSA

We are not talking about Russians as individuals or living in Russia, but how the Russian government conducts itself with the developing world. I don't know if you are intentionally misunderstanding my comment, or if I need to spell things outright.

To be clear Russia is guilty of war crimes and imperialism but it never presents itself in a hypocritical and racist manner as holier-than-thou. It never claims to be the arbiter of human rights and demands certain concessions of the rest of the world. Add to that, the developed world doesn't have a collective bad memory of Russian imperialism and colonialism unlike with the West.

The quotes from the FT post I shared earlier should make it clear what I'm trying to convey here. This is not a gotcha game, the perception is real, regardless of how inaccurate you may feel it is, and the way the West conducts itself only cements it.