I agree with this amazing video with Scott Ritter chock full of amazing information (if not always the easiest to listen to).
Vladimir Putin is only human, but he is also the only adult in the room compared to western leaders (Ritter characterizes each one). All except for western countries see this. He pulled his country out of the ashes created by the US-subservient Yeltsin. The US would either like another Yeltsin or to break apart Russia and grab its resources, which is what the US does with all countries that follow our "Rules".
Putin did indeed regret the dissolution of the Soviet Union sometime in the mid 2000's. He then said he would protect "stateless" Russians created by the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
I would call them extraterritorial, but in either case, it was a reasonable assertion, and one the US has made numerous times ("right to protect") with far less to no validity.
Putin was indeed KGB intelligence. But Ritter reminds us he was Marine Corps intelligence officer. He was doing his job, and proud of it. Being intelligence officer does not necessarily mean a bad person. Putin was the man in the room listening to how Yeltsin was being yanked around and Russia destroyed by the west.
The fighting in Chechnya was caused by [another] US attempt to overthrow the Russia-friendly government using terrorists.
Ritter asserts there is no fixing the anti-Russian racism and xenophobia that has been inculcated into Americans any time soon. Two generations will have to die off, but if kids meet Russians and feel their compassion, we could have peace.
The American position is to do nothing except further advance 'American Interests' at the cost of everyone else. "We don't care about anyone else," Ritter says. "That's the problem." Russians do.
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