[simne]

Plus, Soviets created their own series of computers, even when constantly lagging semiconductors (at least 10 years lag), many clones created with creativity and in some cases performed much better than original.

So what I want to say, Russians are very creative in doing weapons and doing harm, and they are really serious threat for West.

[villedespommes]

This just reeks of bigotry or at they least of disingenuousness

Nuclear and chemical weapons, artillery were invented by West. The US remains (hopefully continues so) the only country that used the nuclear weapons against another country. All defunct European powers routinely engaged in slave trade, drug trade, ethnic cleansing (in very inventive ways sometimes as the Americans nearly exterminating the entire bison population which was the main food source for Native Peoples).

[motorest]

> This just reeks of bigotry or at they least of disingenuousness

...and yet, Russia today is overtly and unapologetically engaged in genocide and ethnic cleansing in it's invasion of Ukraine, not to mention what the regime has been doing in other regions such as Georgia.

If you seriously had a problem with whataboutism involving the US and Europe, you'd be seriously pissed at what Russia has been doing for over a decade. But here you are, making excuses to whitewash Russia.