The constant rhetoric reducing Russia to just Putin (mad-man), or Communists (not-democratic), or worse, a generic Russian soul (not-european) is Western political bias at play. It is trivial to dehumanize, devalue, derogate an entire nation once you have made these labels stick. After that, garnering consensus for inflicting sanctions, suffering, segregation becomes a walk in the park.

Both sides of the table are guilty of doing this, but the West is way more influential and hence much effective at propaganda.

Playbook as old as humans themselves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_stages_of_genocide#Ten_sta...