The West is not morally equivalent to Russia, or China, or Iran, or North Korea.
Never said it was. The Russian are ahead of us on the road to kleptocracy but do not have state-run industry benefitting communists so they are not as bad as China, not as dangerous as North Korea or Iran.
Russian nationalism is not the problem in Ukraine. Russia is the problem in Ukraine. Only a minority in the East and South support separatism. The conflict itself has been in the works since 2006, with the current Russkie terrorist leaders receiving leadership and guerrilla training as far back as back then, with the stated goal of creating a independent Pro-Russian enclave in Ukraine.
Who cares?
Russia is fully united with them. Most of them have ties to KGB-front groups. Even Obama with his mentor Frank Marshal Davis, who was a Communist agent. The No-Nukes, Anti-NATO, anti-American crowd themselves are made up mostly of Cold-War era Communist front groups who advocate that the United States should be passive, inactive, and dissolve NATO, in order to avoid provoking Russia and China. The Ron Paul Foundation is a newer manifestation of these front groups, with many of its members formerly working for Pro-Soviet apologist groups, or they have links to the Eurasianists such as Alexandr Dugin. They're song is always the same, which is, that we should mind our own business.
IOW, what you are saying is nothing more than Russian directed propaganda as organized by the KGB and now FSB.
Never said it was.
You claimed we were "evolving" into Russian style kleptocracy. The effect being that we are not so different from them, or will become them, and, thus, we should not worry about them. But how this is actually logical, you do not explain.
The Russian are ahead of us on the road to kleptocracy but do not have state-run industry benefitting communists
"There are three criteria for state capitalism: substantial state ownership in enterprises; direct government involvement in those enterprises; and an otherwise capitalist system where most enterprises are privately held and operate in market conditions. Russia meets them all. Aslund noted that the state owns two-thirds of the market capitalization in the Russian stock market. However, that ownership is mainly limited to four industries: energy (oil, gas, and electricity), banks, defense industries, and transportation. "
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/the-role-state-corporations-the-russian-economy
Most of the oligarchs themselves are "former" KGB agents and have their monopolies due to Kremlin policy.
Who cares?
Americans do. Obviously, Useful Idiots care about nothing.