One thing the Ukraine war has brought out is that a lot of American thinking about Russia has been wrong. Most of it was shaped by the Communist Revolution and the competitions of the cold war. The mantra of the cold war was about the evils of communism, but what we seem to be seeing is that the evils of Russia existed long before it became communist. Russia has been an extremely predatory country through its history. That is how it got to be the biggest country in the world. Russia is one of the most violent and imperialist powers in history. They have conquered and subjugated more than 80 other nations/cultures in the last 400 years. It has also historically used misinformation as a weapon against other countries. America doesn't have clean hands on the world stage, but Russian history makes America look like Santa Claus. For humanity to survive and thrive, nations need to make a choice to be constructive members of a world civilization. Russia seems to embrace the brutality of its past and they are now a danger to all civilization. The West has resisted them militarily and economically but in this age of the internet, their misinformation must be recognized and resisted.

(Pasted from Lib-Talk.com)