It's literally an opinion and analysis piece. They're supposed to be engaged with critically, the community this was posted in was geopolitics for critically engaging with interesting opinions and analysis.
Liberals claim to support freedom of thought and a variety of views but in reality are all too happy to immediately short-circuit and shut down in a frothing rage the moment they see anything Russian. Tell me again though how you are free thinking, tell me again how you are not programmed to do just that by your own domestic media propaganda.