So, FDR and Churchill stood next to Stalin. McCain is two ahead of them.
“cooperating with a right-wing [actually left wing] Ukrainian leader whose body count might add up to the hundreds...is small potatoes”
To that quote I say: Relativism by any other name is still the same.
as to RT (Russia Today): they were the first news outlet in the world to break the news that a U.S. aircraft carrier was heading to off the coast of Syria back when Obama was “considering.” bombing Assad's regime. Slowly, others (even “western” media outlets) followed in their reporting of this.
RT has also been the first to break other news pieces. Don't be so quick to write them off. Sure, verify first, but they are pretty good at digging up stuff that Western media outlets just won't touch. But they also post junk too, so, as I said, verify first. They may be somewhat “Pravda” but not whole cloth.
MSNBC and CNN are America's “Pravda,” and are actually worse than RT.
The world we live in is populated by imperfect people. That's why we helped Russians hold off the Germans by supplying them and opening a second front in North Africa, Southern Europe and then Western Europe. Both were responsible for the deaths of tens of millions but we ended up backing the lesser of two evils, despite the Russian record of genocide under both the Bolsheviks and the Romanovs. The KLA, the Syrian rebels and the Ukrainian right aren't angels, but neither are their adversaries. Even if you add all of the deaths on both sides in the conflicts they fought, the total doesn't hold a candle to the bloodshed inflicted by Russia on the world.
In the Ukrainian context, it's obvious that Ukraine is a less-developed country with no ambition or chance of ever conquering the world. Russia is precisely the kind of world-conquering power that needs to have its territorial goals kept in check before it acquires enough population and resources to become unstoppable.