Innumeracy is at the core of a lot of strongly held political convictions. And I get the sense that some section of the population thinks it’s racist to conside

Innumeracy is at the core of a lot of strongly held political convictions. And I get the sense that some section of the population thinks it’s racist to consider any non-white nation a threat. Russia can be vilified without triggering any of those concerns in people who might find such thoughts repugnant - eg anti-Muslim or ethnocentric or racially tinged — if they were expressed towards other nations.