The average Russian still greatly admires Reagan, because they know he said the truth about the Soviet Union.
That being said, I believe the average Russian is not particularly a fan of our kind of Democratic system, and I will be the first to say, that our system isn’t for everyone. They seem to prefer having a strong hand running things in The Kremlin, that’s how they are conditioned to think, going all the way back to the days of Ivan the Terrible.
“That being said, I believe the average Russian is not particularly a fan of our kind of Democratic system”
The sad thing right now is a foreigner sees our system and wants no part of it. Our system has truly gone off the rails in the last few decades. We are engaged in numerous wars of convenience. We are in debt up to our eyeballs. And worst of all culturally, we have produced a generation of perverted and lazy human beings. Women in pussy hats, we are the worldwide home of trannies and homosexuality and half the nation is on opiods.
They simultaneously like Americans, and yet reject so much of what we crank out today culturally.
They want our lifestyle and personal security, but no foreigner admires the US government anymore. And we have taken a hit for all our dull witted college students, and for boys running around pretending to be girls. And every other man suddenly being accused of rape for every breast they squeezed all the way back to the early 70s. They see the US government promoting rampant atheism and tearing down statuary.
So they like us, and they don’t want our rot. They are in a weird position. How to get the good we offer without rotting the national morals, or becoming an administrative district of DC and the EU.