re: Why are we supposed to hate Russia and Putin?

Cold War era blanket of familiarity and comfort.

For roughly 50 years, the American public at large did not question or even blink at anything our MIC did because everything was geared towards containing and defeating the Soviet Union and communism.

When the USSR ultimately fell, I think our MIC’s War Machine soon realized that business wasn’t going to be as prosperous.

I’ve long thought China presents a far greater threat in this modern era and by all accounts they have their tentacles already spread throughout this land but for some reason, the CCP largely gets a pass except when the topic of Taiwan occasionally comes up.