My impression is Russia is a socially conservative place that should be the envy of American conservatives, if they could ever get their heads out of 1970's cold war thinking when us school kids had drills where we crawled under desks in case of a nuke attack (which is about the worst thing you can do in that situation, as the desks would all collapse and crush the hapless lemmings under it).
But MSM needs some external boogie man, and Russia is a logical choice. If the current woke generation would want to actually do some good in protesting conservatives, it would be in un-demonizing Russia.
Of course I had to translate that with my google add-on. I have a hard enough time with Spanish, and that has almost the exact same alphabet. Language ain't my thing. If I moved to Russia, I'd be totally illiterate there for the rest of my life.
Although, a lot of English is spoken there, I think. I actually had a dinner date with a Russian woman who was quite fluent. One of the things she told me was that in at least some sections of Russia, women outnumber men by about a 52:48 margin, which she said is huge. That's why Russian mail-order brides are a common "export" from Russia. It's not gold-mining on their part. Too many women cannot get married there and just want a home/family life.