This is a conspiracy theory masquerading as geopolitics. First, modern Russia is not some ancient, homogeneous victim-state. It is the Russian Federation, an empire whose borders were built through centuries of conquest, colonisation and forced incorporation of non-Russian peoples. Tatars, Chechens, Circassians, Bashkirs, Kalmyks and many others did not simply volunteer to become part of Russia. Entire populations were deported from their ancestral lands under Soviet rule, most notoriously the Chechens, Crimean Tatars and others. To portray Russia as merely a target of Western colonialism while ignoring Russian colonialism is historical amnesia. Second, there is no serious Western policy of "breaking up Russia" or "stealing its resources". If that were the objective, NATO would have intervened directly in Ukraine years ago. Instead, Western governments have repeatedly gone out of their way to avoid direct military confrontation with Russia precisely because they want to avoid a wider war. The claim that Western leaders are willing to provoke World War III is absurd; they have spent most of the conflict carefully calibrating support to Ukraine to prevent escalation. Third, opposing the invasion of a sovereign country is not "anti-Russian information warfare". It is a response to Russia's actions. The easiest way to stop negative coverage of Russian aggression would be for Russia to stop invading its neighbours. And finally, it is curious to hear lectures about peace and compassion from people who claim to follow Buddhist principles while endlessly excusing military aggression, authoritarianism and imperial conquest whenever the perpetrators happen to be anti-Western. If your moral compass only points towards condemning one side, it isn't a moral compass at all, it's an ideology.
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