Fair point. However it still feels to me like OSINTIntuit ought to at least acknowledge that, in the great geopolitical “game” that is now violently being played out in West Asia and in Ukraine, Russia (I would argue) has as much right to undermine the US/ NATO hegemon’s interests wherever it can in the face of direct US/ NATO proxy-war attacks on Russian forces in Ukraine & on Ru infrastructure etc over the border from Ukr!
I’m no admirer of Putin, but if I were in his shoes I’d be doing exactly the same thing! If Russia had established military bases in Canada/ Mexico/ Cuba/ Caribbean it’s a total “no-brainer” that Washington would have reacted very quickly & very violently to that scenario!