Let's keep things simple here.
Why do you think people like Nuland, Kagan, Applebaum, Kristol, Blinken and co hate Russia so much??
Gonzalo (RIP) got it absolutely right, the rest is noise (for the piano or otherwise) :
tl;dr - it's completely tribal, an ancestral hatred based on 1000+ years of Khazars being thwarted by Orthodox Rus and Cossacks up and down the Pale of the Settlement. See also Solzhenitsyn's "200 Years Together". Do watch the first 15-30min of the video.
The strange story of a global literary hero who went on to inspire Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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