anyone “looking at the situation realistically and dispassionately” can see that Russia is a proven warmongering menace that cannot be trusted
Reagan understood that ... but a lot here on FR (and Trump, apparently) don’t ...
You’re imposing on Russia the Cold War perspective of the Soviet Union, while in ring the behavior of NATO and the West that tends to provoke from Russia the very behavior we then perceive as aggressive. We don’t live in a comic book. The powers that be, which I’m sure you despise, manage us by influencing how we perceive events. Question everything they tell you is true. EVERYTHING.
Russia's been fighting a busted out, corrupt fellow Eastern European craphole since Feb, 2022 and it still hasn't won the war. Think about it, but I'd say that indicates that Russia's not exactly anything close to the powerful country the Soviet Union was 40 years ago. Yet Youkazoids pretend that it's poised to rise from the ashes, become "CCCP 2.0" (as one retard Youkazoid proclaims in their tagline) and conquer Europe. What idiotic nonsense that is.