Some Americans evidently think the Russian empire - and its "civilization" - grew organically out of the "Russian people," whereas the U.S. is the real imperializer because it's exporting "liberalism" --which is "ideological" and therefore artificial --all over the world. In this way of thinking, Putin's campaign of conquest isn't imperi…
Some Americans evidently think the Russian empire - and its "civilization" - grew organically out of the "Russian people," whereas the U.S. is the real imperializer because it's exporting "liberalism" --which is "ideological" and therefore artificial --all over the world. In this way of thinking, Putin's campaign of conquest isn't imperialism at all, but just an effort to protect Russia's precious civilization from the threat of liberalism and globalism.
Never mind that Kremlin mouthpieces say things like "Russia is a natural empire," and "Russia as an empire is naturally in a constant state of war," and "Russia is enlarging, like it or not," and "Russia's borders end nowhere," Some Americans hate their own country so much that they think Russia is morally superior.
Some Americans evidently think the Russian empire - and its "civilization" - grew organically out of the "Russian people," whereas the U.S. is the real imperializer because it's exporting "liberalism" --which is "ideological" and therefore artificial --all over the world. In this way of thinking, Putin's campaign of conquest isn't imperialism at all, but just an effort to protect Russia's precious civilization from the threat of liberalism and globalism.
Never mind that Kremlin mouthpieces say things like "Russia is a natural empire," and "Russia as an empire is naturally in a constant state of war," and "Russia is enlarging, like it or not," and "Russia's borders end nowhere," Some Americans hate their own country so much that they think Russia is morally superior.