So what you're saying, correct me if I'm wrong, is Russia is willing to kill millions, even billions of innocent or otherwise lives because they feel their sovereignty as a nation is being threatened?
Now I understand wanting to defend yourselves but destroying planet Earth is quite a selfish thing to do.
I can't control the people who you see as assaulting Russia's sovereignty however I can share my thoughts with others. People generally react very predictably. For instance you arguing that if Russia's culture and sovereignty is threatened you will simply fight to the point of nuclear weapons. The only real reaction you're going to get out of that is a "fuck you". However, if you explain your reasons for being concerned and express it in such a way as to be reasonable to the people you are arguing against you might actually get someone to listen to you.
Also, you haven't actually described what is threatening Russia's sovereignty in detail and have just said "The west". I'd like to know what exactly you mean.
Hmm, well where do I start? Exploiting Yeltsin's lack of balls to collapse our countrie's economy through IMF and all those Harvard graduated advisors you parachuted in. Expanding NATO up to our border regardless of the promises you made to Gorbachev to ensure him that letting USSR break up is for the better. You putting your nose into Yugoslavia, you putting your nose into our sphere of influence, blocking our WTO ascension, deluding bugs like Georgia into thinking that they are somehow equal to us and then criticizing us for putting them in their proper place then they get uppity. Embracing scum like Berezovsky, it just goes on and on. What about funding all the pseudo-historic movements in Ukraine, twisting the sacred friendship Russians and Ukrainians have always shared, a brotherhood that protected us both for a millennium. Until we are like Western Europe, or Canada or the rest of your fanclub, as in pseudo-sovereign with American troops permanently stationed on our ground you will see us as a threat to be dealt with rather than a power to be respected. What annoys me most of all is the self-righteousness, yelling "liberty" at the top of your lungs until it looses all meaning doesn't make you enlightened, it makes you an idiot. Who the hell are you to judge us on what we do? Who the hell are you to tell us what we can and can not do? Who the hell are you? We've been here for a thousand years, we've wiped entire nations off the map, we conquered 1/6th of earth's soil, we gave the world some of its greatest minds, built some of its greatest architecture, we did everything that a nation has to do to be considered one of the Great Nations. You want to lead someone, somewhere, you have your fanclub, and they're happy with their vassal status, they're happy with sending their men to die whenever you end up in one of your crazy misadventures, they're happy with having foreign troops permanently stationed on their god given soil that their ancestors spilled rivers of blood over to protect, they're happy, we're not, we still have some pride left and nothing will ever take that away from us. Russia is unique, no other nation has suffered such turmoils as us and come out of them stronger each time, no other nation in history of the human kind, there is a reason why we refer to our history as "hardening of steel". Your arrogance and self-righteousness themselves are a threat, because they fool you into believing that you can break us, which will lead you to trying, which will end up in the end of us both.