De: "We're definitely being told to fear and hate Russia."
This has been going on for many decades, and people have been slurping it up—hypnotized—without question.
Consider Hollywood's use of "Russians" and "Russian Accent" as synonymous with evilly evil. This has been inculcated (drilled) into our brains for all our lives.
Remember Boris Badenov and Natasha from the Rocky and Bullwinkle show in the 1960s?
Remember https://www.fandango.com/movie-photos/9-best-russian-villains-in-movies-989? Everything from James Bond, to Marvel comic villains, to John Wick. Got to keep that programming going!
Wouldn't a CHINESE accent have been just as easy to recognize and vastly more appropriate? Especially in the years since the PEACEFUL AND DELIBERATE disbanding of the USSR circa 1990? Wouldn't it have been vastly more accurate of where the real spying, bribing, and deliberate theft of intellectual secrets has been coming from?
Chinagate and the Clintons: http://www.independentsentinel.com/lest-we-forget-clintons-chinagate-scandal-the-worst-in-us-history/
Did you see our Masters slap China silly after that and put in place massive VETTING of anyone with a Chinese appearance, Chinese connections, Chinese accent, Close Chinese relatives in China? Of course not! Instead, you saw the flood gates opened WIDER and deliberate exporting of tech to still COMMUNIST China and a hurried rush to train the Chinese spies in critical tech at top US universities! While the "Russia, Russia, Russia!" narrative continued to be fed.
Even as CHINA genocided the Tibetans and took up organ harvesting against Falun Gong members. The Chinese were "A-Ok!" -- our Masters said so!
Our Masters in Washington, in Hollywood, and the US Military DID this. It wasn't a mistake. You'd think "Conservatives", at least, would have been a little brighter. But no...
They don't call them Neo-CONs for nothing! I guess that's why the our Masters call us CONNED-Servatives? We are so easy to con, repeatedly. AND SO EAGER TO SERVE!