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My family is from an ex-Soviet country, I'm 95% sure my nuclear engineer grandfather was involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis (family lived in Cuba for 5 coincidental years), and now I'm a cog in the DoD machine. Russia is a near-peer military threat, so it has to be a boogeyman. Are you saying the U.S. isn't one of the few boogeymen in Russian culture? Nobody in their right mind would declare any citizen of another country as evil because they are members of that state. Combatants and political actors engage in warfare with other combatants and political actors, not their civilian populations. I encourage you not to associate American political and media agendas with the global outlook of American citizens.