Russians don’t decide who they are, their strongman leaders do.
If their leader murders them by the 10s of millions, they go with the flow, if he uses them to die by the 10s of millions as cannon fodder, then they go with the flow.
As long as we can protect ourselves and Europe from their insanity, and violence, then we will be OK.
You can come out from under that rock now - where you’ve evidently been living for a couple decades -