Why do Americans fear and dislike Russia?

Americans do not fear and dislike Russia--like a number of other readers have mentioned, they mostly pay it very little attention. read more

Americans do not fear and dislike Russia--like a number of other readers have mentioned, they mostly pay it very little attention. Sadly, this is why they end up parroting a bunch of nonsense and sounding like they do--because some politician makes belligerent speeches about Russian policy, it sounds like they are experts, so the public adapts that perspective. read more

Mr. Putin’s Russia, by contrast, frightens Americans because they know that the United States and Russia should be very different, but many of the pathologies present in Russia can also be found in the United States. What disturbs liberal America is not that Russia will run the world — far from it. read more

Russia is neither a threat to the West’s dominance nor a military evil knocking at its gates. It is as much a victim of terror as the U.S., as much a developing nation striving to deal with its bread-and-butter issues as India, and as much a proud culture as France. read more