Russians as a people might have existed for a thousand years, but, Russians as Tartarians existed for thousands of years longer than that. Russians as individuals exist for how many years? Maybe 50. Maybe 80. Maybe 100 in a few cases.
Where does a Russian baby get his general, ethnic direction? A little of it might come from racial memory. Science isn't sure that racial memory exists, or what it entails. However, if you take a Russian baby and raise him in some other country, his life direction is not Russian any longer.
The point? Russians, like all other people, are influenced by things around them, as well as what they dedicate themselves to be. One of the things that influenced Russians was their contact with the US through the Bolshevik-times, when the US interfered with them by actually starting the modern Russian country. European contact influences them as well. If China were closer land-wise, Russians would have a much larger amount of influence from them.
If modern Russians met Russians of 1000 years ago, they would recognize a form of comradeship between themselves. But they would also recognize their foreignness.
If you look closely, you will find that the attributes that you assign to Russians, and especially Putin, are the same attributes that you find in Ukrainians and Zelensky. Why is it this way? Because for thousands of years they were one people... if you can even really call a group of people, or a nation of people, one people... because differences exist between every individual human being, to say nothing about and within groups or nations.
You are entirely falling into the same failure that many historians do. This failure is that you are forgetting about the strong, basic unity found between all people - because all people are human - and focusing on mostly make-believe differences that all people have. Differences and similarities exist in many ways and in all people.
What nonsense! Again, the US is to blame! How did the Americans manage to found modern Russia. You definitely drank too much whiskey, otherwise only a drunk or a fool can express such an idea. You wrote here, if China were closer by land, the Russians would have much more influence on their part. Since it is China that borders the United States, not America. Learn geography before spouting nonsense here.
You forget that the US and the wealthy elite of the world funded the Bolshevik Revolution. Then they supported the new Russia with materials and training and equipment. If they hadn't done this, the Bolsheviks would have failed.
I don't blame you for picking on me. It's called 'ad hominem'. It's what people do when they are trolls, and can't figure out an answer to make their own lies stand. Thanks for showing what you really are.
As I see it, you are using it as a template, the same for all my topics, in which I accuse Russia and its President Putin of an aggressive policy, seeking to justify this aggression by the existence of America. Here the topic is about Russia and its people, where does the United States? If you want to discuss intelligently the United States, then open a topic about issues that interest you.
As for accusing me of trolling, this is exactly what you are doing, always supporting the murderer of Putin.