Russia is what it is. No arguing that.
What is amazing while reading your post is that you could have been describing exactly what is happening in all western countries.
Yet you fail to recognize it is happening and support the globalist cabal behind it.
NATO expansion is not the will of free people. It is a corrupt communist elitist cabal creating a world government right under your nose pretending that “the people” want it. They use and force decent people to die for their immoral expansion and wrap their deception in a flag of “freedom” to make it palatable.
USA and NATO is not perfect and always had some problems but Russia is a whole different level of oppression you cannot begin to understand until living there