What hypocrisy? Nobody is turning a blind eye to Russia's offences. The issue is America's hypocrisy -- we claim to be a shining beacon of democracy and shout

What hypocrisy? Nobody is turning a blind eye to Russia's offences. The issue is America's hypocrisy -- we claim to be a shining beacon of democracy and shout down from our ivory tower. We impose restrictions on Chinese exports across the world by advocating preemptive defense against state-sponsored cyber-attacks, and yet we have our own tendrils constricting the world in the same manner. We claim it's to fight terrorism, but it's the same manner of economic and political espionage that China is so guilty for. The Russian government is upfront and honest about being despotic but our representatives spread calculated lies and half-truths, and play legal games with what "collect" and "spy" mean. The US government even has the gall to engage/infiltrate security research organizations to manipulate and degrade the quality of security for their own benefit. We are maliciously undermining the information security of the world. His presence in Russia may look like tacit complicity of Russian practices, but he hasn't expressed such a thing so it would be imprudent to make such assumptions. It's like choosing between living in a lion's cage or swimming in shark-infested waters -- would you risk swimming with the sharks to prove a point about how deadly the sharks are, especially when you just threw some chum at them?