I don't have a bone to pick with Russia. I just don't want to see a return to Soviet power. The USSR was a plague on the world in general, and Eastern Europe in particular. Putin seems to long for the "glory days" of Brezhnev invading Czechoslovakia for daring to want their own brand of communism. The world shouldn't have to endure another bout of Bolshevism any more than it should have to endure the Nazis for a second time. I think a failure of imagination vis-a-vis what Putin's designs on Eastern Europe are could be a complete catastrophe. That's all. No ill will toward Russia or the Russian people from me.
I'm not a defender of all things Russian. Thank you, I was curious as to what was populating your worldview that I might not have known about.