This sounds, at least to western ears, to be a reasonable statement. - I think it is not.
Russian people are human beings. Each is an individual and affected both by human universalities and by conditioning.
The "collective personality" of Russians or any other people is a false human construct. Unfortunately, and perhaps, inevitably, - I don't know.
When great perfidy occurs by a nation or people, in my view, it is inevitably created, promoted and maintained by a relative few megalomaniacs; often in fact, just one.
I very much doubt that there are many 'ordinary' Russian people who agree with brutality, rape and killing. I also very much doubt that, even collectively, they would have chosen to invade Ukraine - that is down to supposed leadership. In fact, it is down to a narcissistic demagogue.
As for "honor". That is a human construct created as part of an artificial code designed to support the supposed superiority of rulers and ruling classes over the mass. One only has to consider the large number of monarchs, church officers, politicians, and such who are given honorifics before their names and. yet have been shown to be anything but "honourable", to see that such terms have no real meaning.
I abhor the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Indeed, I abhor the reality that 'States' have control over movement, life and death, and information. However, I do not accept that, a generalisation which characterises a whole people on the basis of the crimes and conditioning conducted by those in power, is acceptable.
I am English. Does that make me a monarchist? My father drove a steam engine on the railway during WWII - he was abused as a coward, yet he was exempt from military service because the railways were essential to the war effort and, for anyone that knows how steam locomotives operated, they will appreciate that driving a steam locomotive in the darkness with the brightness from the firebox every time its door was opened for stoking, made a brilliant target for enemy aircraft, particularly given that the railways were, in any case, a major target. - Was my father a coward?
It is all too easy to inadvertently, accidentally or sometimes deliberately label all as mirroring the few. However, it is never valid to generalise from the particular.
