amazing to read so many ill-informed comments by foreigners living in Thailand. the murikan empire has been on the wrong side ever since the breakup of the USSR. first saying it would not move eastward to threaten the newly freed Russians, then back-tracking and taking every opportunity to threaten and demonize Russia and its leadership. reached a crescendo when buffoon Trump defeated that miserable woman, initiating the blame Russia nonsense which continued to grow during the period of the trump presidency. since then, the narrative has evolved to "Russia bad, empire good." the Russians in ukraine have been treated as second class citizens ever since the empire-promoted 2014 "revolution," when a legitimate and basically neutral ukraine president was deposed in a coup. the Russians in ukraine then made a play for self-determination, which, IMHO, should be a basic human right. however, the ukraine authorities sent their military to smash those Russians living in the Donbass eastern part of the country (BTW, some of those ukrainian solders still identify with the nazi ss galicia division). with the mass of ukie army massing on the edge of the Russian enclave and threatening wider death and destruction and with the empire and its puppets pouring as much fuel on the fire as possible, the Russian president finally said "enough" - basically emulating former president Kennedy's actions in preventing the USSR from weaponizing cuba. V. Putin did not want this war but the empire apparently did. now the world is dealing with a mess created essentially by the bullying, hypocritical, and would-be world dominating empire elites. bottom line is, if you don't kowtow to the empire, you are the enemy.....