Sort of.
The Slavic and Germanic tribes were once the same group. The Slavs - particularly Serbs and Slovenians - have been extremely persistent about the notion that humanity began closer to Southern Europe - more around where the southern edge of Austria is, currently. The slavic tribes were there long before the Roman systems of rule began recognizing the hamburgers and brambleburgers.
Very old blood, there. Very influential outside the world of spreadsheet warriors.
While the various Germanic tribes were busy playing shekelboard with the Romans, the Ottomans were plundering the bejeesus out of the Yugoslavs - and it was the Russian tribes and royalty who went to kill the shit out of the Ottomans and tried to preserve the culture of the Yugoslavs - who were basically destroyed to the point they no longer had a language. Old Church Slavonic is what was effectively the Russian attempt to keep the population literate.
Vlad, the Dragon? Dude was a fucking hero. We make him out to be a villain - but he drove back several waves of Jihad. True - dude was brutal as hell - but the ottomans would kill you and drag the women off to be breed stock. That, and the guy purged his own deep state (people who were getting fat off of deals with the ottomans and corrupting business - he executed them).
Anyway … the Rothschilds bankrolled the bolshevik revolution to have the Romanovs exterminated. That was after Napoleon tried to invade Russia and before Hitler would try the same insane thing.
Russia is Russia and does Russian things - so, I can get that they are not necessarily to be taken as our fellow countrymen. They have their own agenda and probably are doing everything they can to manipulate things … And who could blame them? In the context of history - the Germans keep getting a wild hair up their ass because of their shekelboard game and come storming across the plains at them every hundred years. From their perspective, Europe is insane and can think of nothing better to do than pay muslims to kill Europeans before charging off to freeze their armies in Siberia.
I'm just saying - the anti-Russian madness throughout history has been about the only consistent foreign policy standpoint the west has held - and it has existed since Rome was fighting the Huns, at the very least.