To be clear, I have never said the US is innocent in any way. I am talking about these specific instances and this specific history. And, in this instance, what the US is doing is markedly not as bad as what Russia is going.
Attitudes that I sense....
But if they've both done bad things,
then they're both equally bad. Only
those entirely without sin may criticize.
We've no modern equivalent of Caesar's
wife to weigh in, eh. Anyway, I also sense
that there are 2 kinds of Russia supporters...
1) Those who prefer Russia because of
hostility to USA.
2) Those who share Russian values & goals,
eg, expanding Russia to include all former lands,
preserving a conservative Christian order,
belief that ethnic Russians elsewhere must be
defended at all cost against Nazi regimes.