Russia Is A Western Country

It's a shame about the EU bit, and there is plenty of the developing world to which what follows does not apply, but Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's envoy to NATO, is of course right overall:

“There is an enormous distance between Europe and the Third World. There is a new civilization emerging in the Third World that thinks that the white, northern hemisphere has always oppressed it and must therefore fall at its feet now. This is very serious.”

“If the northern civilization wants to protect itself, it must be united: America, the European Union, and Russia. If they are not together, they will be defeated one by one.”

The Russia-haters are in fact anti-Western. They loathe the Biblical-Classical synthesis in Christ and His Church, which simply is the West (and is also increasingly defining entire civilisations in the developing world), and of which Russia and her Slavic brethren are the historic gatekeepers, both against Islam and against domination by the Far East.