“The emperor only values his throne and will do anything to protect it, while all others are mere resources to be exploited,” writes Aleksandar Đokić, a Serbian political scientist and former lecturer at RUDN University in Moscow. “In other words, the Russian empire is knowingly throwing its own people, people of its own nation, into a meatgrinder, a virtual abyss.”
Exactly. America has done some truly horrific stuff in the not-so-distant past, and there’s no moral equivalency between the modern US and Russia. None. Both statements can be true at the same time.