re: Why do we not like Russia?

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Russian government stages bombing and killed it own citizens then blamed Crimea ,

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Chechnya, not Crimea.

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they just wanted a reason to invade Crimea to have access to the sea

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Russia already has access to the Black Sea with or without Crimea.

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Vladimir Putin’s orders kills or in prisons his vocal critics

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"or in prisons"??? Again, is English your first language?

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They are engaged in cypher warfare

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Cyber??

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They people are not evil

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"They" people?? WTF??

You truly are functionally illiterate.

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I also doubt the plane was merely transporting people

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There has been no evidence that I've seen that the plane was anything other than a civilian aircraft. Why would the Russians think an international flight of the national airline of Malaysia, headed to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam, had anything to do with the war in Donbass? The most likely reason for MH17 being shot down was because the Ukrainian Air Force was operating in the region, and with the missile launcher in the hands of rebels, a missile launcher provided by the Russians, the rebels thought that it was an aircraft of the UAF rather than a civilian aircraft.

This is a weird quasi-justification, Rob.

Will you really begrudge anyone indignation for a civilian jet being shot down without any actual proof that there was a justification? I guess you will.

In any case, one good thing came of that incident. AIVD started casing Cozy Bear and their hacking allowed them to pass us inside info on the DNC hack.

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We whipped their arse in the cold war. Now like any victor we were willing to move on. But a LOT of people in Russia combined their:

1. sense of loss from being one of the top two world powers (we were #1 of course)
2. the humiliation of losing
3. the disillusionment of how "capitalism" has manifested it self itself in Russia an oligarchical kleptocracy.

Of course they can't blame themselves, human nature being what it is, so they blame their old enemy. Aided by politicians who capitalize on the old animosity, and the compliant media that work for them, the west in general and the US in specific are the cause for all their woes.

So they seek to thwart and stymie us because that's what they want. BUT they don't really want open confrontation because they know that ends badly for them. So they nip at our heels and do what they can to weaken us without an outright confrontation.

It's not a rational strategy, but it is a hell of a lot easier than trying to reform the Russian political and economic system. So in that sense it is a "politically rational" path, I guess.

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quoting this in full because it's excellent and deserves a re-post. I'd just add that Putin's attitude towards the west seems to have been shifting over the past 10 years and really seems to have been greatly affected by seeing how Qadaffi's attempt to make peace with the NATO countries didn't save him from being toppled and excecuted. Putin seems to see himself in a corner without other good options.