larry johnson looks for reasons why the west hates russia. its been going on since at least queen victoria's reign;

If you don’t do anything else this weekend while recovering from your Christmas hangover, please find the time to read, Jeffery Sachs: Two Centuries of Russophobia & Rejection of Peace, which is posted at Consortium News. Professor Sachs provides a compelling exegesis of the history of Russia vs. Europe that shows that the roots of Western hatred of Russia have little to do with Russian misdeeds or provocations.

Here is a snippet from a key section of the article explaining this idea:

That shift is captured with extraordinary clarity in a document highlighted by Orlando Figes in The Crimean War: A History (2010) as being written at the hinge point between diplomacy and war: Mikhail Pogodin’s memorandum to Tsar Nicholas I in 1853.

Pogodin lists episodes of Western coercion and imperial violence — far-flung conquests and wars of choice — and contrasts them with Europe’s outrage at Russian actions in adjacent regions:

“France takes Algeria from Turkey, and almost every year England annexes another Indian principality: none of this disturbs the balance of power; but when Russia occupies Moldavia and Wallachia, albeit only temporarily, that disturbs the balance of power.............more........