It's funny because what you described fits the bill of the transatlantic power elite to the teeth. I'd argue they are much more powerful than Russia and historically had enslaved and destroyed way more nations and people than Russia ever did.

You know nothing of Russian history prior to the 20th century and what you're referring as the "evil empire", namely the communist regime there, was a creation of the western elite (mostly jews) who financed and organized the Bolshevik revolution from New York and London, because the Anglo-American Establishment doesn't tolerate competition for their imperial hegemony. They did this to topple Tzarist Russia which was turning into an autonomous resource-rich powerful industrial nation that was not controlled by their international debt-based banking system. That's why they destroyed Germany too by financing the zionist painter and going to war against him after decades of warmongering - they wanted to finish what they started in WWI.

What if the information you've been fed by the school system and media is a huge lie by the propagandists serving that unholy power elite? How could any thinking person, who's not a total NPC trust them with any narrative they spin at this point? Isn't it strange that "the democratic West" are always the good guys at the right side of history, even when they engage in the same activity as their enemies?

I'll answer your loaded question with an identical one (even though I'm not sold on the binary): Do you want the degenerate anti-human CIA/IMF/WEF/NATO cabal to succeed?