The French sociologist Emanuel Todd suggests that for both sides in this proxy war between USA/ NATO and Russia this is an existential conflict. The west has made it abundantly clear that it doesn’t like Russia. It didn’t like Russia as communist.It doesn’t like Russia as capitalist. It doesn’t like Putin, doesn’t like the Russian Federation, doesn’t like Russia’s political system. doesn’t like anything about Russia. The west, inheritor of the profits of slavery and colonialism, the wielder of hydrogen bombs, the scourge of the global indigenous, the world’s foremost manufacturers of lethal weapons and murderous gasses, ironically preens itself as morally, intellectually and in every way superior to Russia, even though victory in World War II was the result of enormous sacrifice of Russian blood, more than for all those of the western alliance, and even though the source of western elites’ dislikes and snooty disapprovals is the lust they nurture for Russian mineral wealth. They will countenance every dirty trick in the book to stage color revolutions and secessionist movements with little to no sound or legitimate pretext.
Precisely. Thank you.