You are correct in every word of that post, we need more who see through this Ruskie smoke and mirrors.
The trouble in finding the truth of anything Russian is it’s difficult to pierce the xenophobic Russian mind set. No Russian will believe what he reads or hears or even sees. He’ll only believe what another Russian tells him. Think of that little Russian doll, I believe it’s called a ‘’kuchina’’. One big one on the outside and as you lift that one in descending order they get smaller and smaller until you’re right back to where you started.