I'll give you two of them with one post. The US promote the sanctions which influenced Russia's decision to improve BRICS. It wasn't enough for the US to advertise against BRICS. They had to go and make Russia stronger in her resolve to trade without the US dollar.
Russia, supported by the US and the West.
That is, in the end, the United States helps Russia. Very good! I just do not understand why in this case Russia is against sanctions, if they are useful to her. On the contrary, Russia should be grateful to America for the sanctions.
You have noticed by now, that almost all of your talk against Russia includes stuff that happened from the Stalin era and before. Try separating the changes in the various Russian regimes..
Before the sanctions, Russia probably barely thought about sanctions happening to them. When sanctions happened, it probably upset their plans for international trade, so they probably didn't like it. Now, they are not thanking the West, because they have a whole slew of West-created problems to work out, including potential WW3. Russia is just grateful that the doors to their protection opened for them.
How do you thank the West for its stupid blundering that accidentally helped Russia, when all that the West seems to think about is destroying Russia?