I think you need to update those Soviet perceptions. 2022 Russia is not 1993 Russia. It may be hard to admit, but Russia is in a hell of a lot better shape that America of late. Socially and especially spiritually. As we descend into Communism and authoritarianism, half our country hates the other half. Russia, having all come out of communism, is very unified and nearly all conservative. They can accurately define man, woman and family without fear of being attacked or cancelled. The government also builds beautiful churches in the middle of cities. Imagine our government glorifying God by building a church. It’s inconceivable. There is also zero LGBT grooming in their schools or in their mass media. Where are we at? We’ve accepted living under a completely fraudulent regime due to a total failure of all the checks and balances. We accept weaponized government agencies jailing thought criminals in the nations capital. Were losing to LGBT, gender and CRT ideological poison. We’re completely at the mercy of China buying US treasury bonds to keep the dying petrodollar afloat and we’re now proving to the world just how dependable the US dollar is by stealing $300 billion of Russia’s money at the stroke of a government pen. You think that makes America more trusted in the world? I think you’ll see what society is stronger after six months of sanctioning one of the worlds largest commodity economies.
I see that you are Canadian, that’s cool. Beautiful country, Alberta ear Banff looks stunning and I want to visit.
Anyway I think you are oversimplifying views of the US and Russia. Yes we have some bad trends here in the US, but we always have. We are fighting to correct them.
Russia puts some window dressing and builds a few churches, but they they are a bad culture. Thuggish and brutal and run by oligarchs. They pissed away a real chance to change after the wall came down.
Russia in no way is morally superior to the US. The US does more good in the world than any other nation, its not even close.
And yes we will correct the bad stuff going on here.