I don’t begrudge hatred towards a foreign army carrying out an invasion of conquest. I’m also fairly willing to justify relatively extreme tactics to bring such

I don’t begrudge hatred towards a foreign army carrying out an invasion of conquest. I’m also fairly willing to justify relatively extreme tactics to bring such a war to a satisfactory end; for instance, I believe the atomic bombings of Japan were justified. But when you talk about indiscriminate hatred towards the Russian people, you’re including Russian people who mind their own business and have nothing to do with these invasions. You’re even including Russian people who might oppose these invasions and have done what they could to resist them. Russia isn’t even a democracy, and it’s safe to say that it never has been. The people of Russia have always been the victims of their own autocratic regimes. If you treat them as an enemy because you are victimized by the same autocratic regime that they are, you are only furthering the interests of the regime itself, which is your true enemy and theirs.