YUROP

Russia Bad is the new China Bad. Once a user knows it gets attention, they'll spam the channel relentlessly and call anyone who complains a Vatnik.

That's long before you get into the politics of the Putin Regime, his climb to power on the back of Shock Doctrine dismantling of the USSR, or why Bush was staring into his eyes and seeing a soul he could trust during the War on Terror. Like, everyone wants to hate on The Russians. Nobody wants to ask where the plutocrats came from or why so much Western European / US infrastructure imported during the 1990s and 00s has Cyrillic script stamped all over it.

Nobody wants to talk about why Donald Rumsfeld was shaking Saddam Hussein's hand back in the 1980s, why Bin Laden was getting glowing write ups in US news journals during the 90s, or why guys like Noriega and Bukele and Bolsonaro kept popping up across Latin America every time the locals got to community oriented.