The problem of philosopher kings is that those who most drive society are those who most clearly only see their side, not both sides. We are driven by our desires and only steered by our judgements. That though, is a much larger discussion.

I just don’t see any objectivity about the Russia situation. It’s not as though any news organization did an objective study of how much any and every country in the world might have spent to influence the 2016 election and where Russia might have fit on that scale. quite possibly not in the top ten. I’m sure Mexico, Canada, Saudia Arabia, Israel, England and yes, even Ukraine might have spent more. Not to mention the utter, total hypocrisy of the US whining that some other country may have interfered in our internal politics.

One of the points made on various sites is that part of the feedback loop to this dynamic is that when we do give large amounts of foriegn aid to our chosen factions and leaders, they kick some back to the various institutes and foundations the politicians in charge of the money set up. Joe Biden was simply more obvious and ham handed in leaving it to his kid as the bag man.

So that Trump knocks foreign aid to appeal to his base, disrupts that flow and why everyone in the system feels threatened by him. Reagan openly conspired with the Iranians to hold the hostages until after the 80 elections, but since it served the military industrial complex to have Reaganomics pouring money into their coffers, nobody paid much attention.

As for Russia being backwards, safe to say, Saudia Arabia not only missed the last millennia of Western civil evolution, but much of Muslim cultural evolution, as well, yet because they have the oil, we are best buds.

I would also make the probably politically incorrect observation that the social Judaism the West experiences, is a product of the Diaspora, where their cultural strength placed them in the position of being a large part of the network holding the nodes of European monarchial nations together. The traders, doctors, intellectuals, bankers, etc, which enabled these top down civil orders to function in a larger context. Though setting up certain antibiotic reactions, when these insular societies felt threatened. The problem is that now they have their own country, it functions more and more as a tribal, than a civil structure, with an inward focus and little respect for external relations.

So the whole Russia focus can only really be explained by the inertia of NATO and the need for this model to have an enemy to concentrate their attention. Muslim terrorists just proved too complicated to replace the Soviet Union as a simple, all-encompassing boogey man.

Not say I am pro, or anti-Russian, as they are as human, for better or worse, as the rest of us, but their primary posture seems primarily defensive and the fact they happen to take advantage of our strategic failures, can’t exactly be held against them, in any objective sense. Especially since those elements of the system actually facilitating these failures, civil and military, are not being held accountable.

That so much of our culture choses to agree they must be at fault, rather then seeing it as more of a red flag being waved in front of an emotional and disoriented herd, just goes to show the complete lack of attention span, in our media and those unwilling to examine it. Simple narratives for simple minds.