>Russians are the 'bad guys' of choice in a disproportionate amount of high visibility movies and Netflix shows Because the Chinese are off limits now (because

>Russians are the 'bad guys' of choice in a disproportionate amount of high visibility movies and Netflix shows Because the Chinese are off limits now (because the studios want to make money there and throwing evil Chinese billionaires into your rotation for super-villain of the month is a great way to not do that) so that basically leaves Russian billionaires and middle eastern oil moguls as your two picks for low effort evil foreign characters.