I’m just a corndog loving dipstick in the heartland, jaymaster. (Great with Georgian wine!)
But, I have travelled in the FSU and have a complicated mixture of sympathy and disdain for the Russian people. They are not cartoon characters.

Nahncee’s right that they need to hear how pissed we are at Putin. But, a lot of this “they’re-all-evil” rhetoric just reinforces the propaganda of the Russian media. They really do fear that all foreigners are members of a great cosmic lynch mob out to get them.