And their are holier than thou idiots who gloat about China should do a land grab of Eastern Russia. So it’s not land grabbing that is the issue. It’s hatred of Russians and their culture.
Pravoslavophobia.
Not Russia hatred but reaction to Russia trying to rebuild its empire. Siberia falling to China will be because of bad choices made by the government.
Russian culture - +++
Russian social psychology - -—
Russia has tons of smart creative people.
Who tend to be easily dominated by gangs of human predators.
Take Russians out of Russia and put them in a sane social environment and all is well.
Depends on what part of the culture. I love the Russian arts, ice skating, music (Stravinsky over Tchaikovsky, and possibly Rimsky-Korsakov and Mussorgsky over Stravinsky. Prolly should pull ‘em all out again & copy to a flash drive so I can play ‘em in my car. Then I can quiz my daughter (who’s taken orchestra classes for 6 years, and piano B4 that) to see if she recognizes all.)
Style of gov’t, not so much. Ah, well. I’m just as likely to follow Borodin with Uriah Heep. ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Vy00m-hEo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt7DbmKFOdo