No. It turns out that Russia as the bogey man goes back long before the SMO. I am just learning about.
I have not gotten that far in the book yet. On YT I heard that it goes back in UK to around 1840. UK liked RU help in beating Napoleon but then decided there was only room for one empire on the planet. So they started making stuff up not based on RU actions.
E.g. RU had plans to invade and conquer India. Also, Poland and others created a fake will/testament for Peter the Great having his plans to conquer Europe or some such.
I heard that US tranny who was the official eng language spokesperson for Ukr govt say that Russians are mongols while Ukr are European and Russians are a slave race that need to be led. I just got to that part in the book. That is hundreds of years old in the west. Another is that the RU czars are despots needed to control the RU but also they re a meek slave race and easy to lead.
China and Japan have both gone to war with RU and border them but they do not share the European stereotypes. That is weird.
It just seems that the Russia hatred is way beyond reasonable I so I wanted the history.
Some guy wrote a 1950 Harvard PhD on Russo-phobia apparently turned into a 1962 book. I have a request for inter library loan for that.
https://www.amazon.com/Genesis-Russophobia-Britain-Historical-Hardcover/dp/0674281098The Genesis of Russophobia in Great Britain Hardcover – February 5, 1950by John Howes Gleason (Author)
