Nay professor, not a bot, although maybe the more bot-like party between us is the one who internalizes political narratives without taking time to understand the pragmatic nature of these stories as seen from life inside of a western society. To hate Russia because Russia is evil is to be an absolute moron who fails to understand that power is a zero-sum game and your opponent is still very bitter about the fall of the USSR.

But if one wishes to say… “use their heads”, maybe then we can understand that these stories are compelling because of self-interest and perception of ethnic superiority. But to get back to the commies and why you think they re evil, an invasion of a country to rescue a naval base from russia s perspective is a no-brainer especially if we remember the fight for control of afghanistan and east asia (from the 80s to 2010s) and the importance of access to the black sea. Russia had no desire to invade Crimea as long as it remained in diplomatic good terms with Ukraine, which it did for decades, shit took off when 'merican freedom came to rescue those poor opressed ukrainians, and the US fucked off when it saw that Russia committed to the war.

But yeah about the ally part, yep. That s how nato has been doing it, ask the libyans maybe?