>>5186
It's definitely in the British ruling class. As regards their entire foreign policy, it's the attitudes of that class alone which dominate. But normally those attitudes are "signaled" in advance or are in some way public or discernible.

The classic example is the English/French rivalry. This is not secret, is constantly enforced by low key anti-French racism in most media, ever so often spills out internationally or at least used to in pre-Macron times. You can trace the whole thing back historically, almost to the day of battle and through the centuries.
Every country has things like this. Ireland/England, France/Germany, Greece/Turkiye, China/Japan, Russia/Mongolia or Russia/Germany I'm guessing. You can run it back to some ancient war or conflict and ongoing rivalries. These things are usually telegraphed, if only by soccer hooligans at international matches.

But I've never been aware of a UK/Russia animosity before this war. It's normally easy to become aware of these things in anglophone media(90% of what we consume here). But this "Russian thing" with the UK (and parts of the US) ruling class is beyond me. It seems to have come from nowhere. Hard to say when it emerged explicitly but sometime after 2014. By 2022 it was obvious there was a 'grudge' or some kind of desire to have a go at Russia. But now, after the war going so badly and Nato being shown up, they're STILL going ahead with escalation. It's some kind of irrational passion that's driving this. I thought Russians might know more about it.

Note I'm distinguishing this war lust from general low-key anti-Russian racism and stereotypes you would see. But these are like general foreign stereotypes of anyone, not something you'd expect to be driving thermonuclear bloodlust..

Boris Johnson is the classic case here (but not a political outlier). But I struggle to understand why even Boris Johnson gives this much of a shit about Russia. Like, what is their problem man? The whole "free world and democracy" shit was pretty weak ever before Gaza. I'm not buying cheap resources answers either since it was cheaper not to start this. There is just an Anglo hate-boner for the Moscow regime and I can't figure out when or which pill London popped for this. And I don't buy communism holdovers either since they were never this horny during the Cold War, were they?