I welcome counter examples
Certainly. Let's see...
if they're not actively humiliating others they feel humiliated themselves... destroying another country = humiliating someone else
Russians don't destroy countries. OK, they occupy them but most of the time they let the locals run things after Russians take over (sure, run things according to the latest Russian fashion of communism, socialism, kleptocratic oligarchism or whatever, but still). They don't organise holocausts of entire nations, they incorporate them and try to re-educate them (with various success, as Polish example shows ;)).
friendly trade and diplomatic relations = humiliating to russians (because they're not humiliating their partners)
Again, it's not true. Poland, for the most part of 1945-1989 period, had positive surplus balance from our trade with the Soviet Union. If you care to do the search, I discussed this issue with Bobi and even gave relevant academic sources (Polish!). How is giving more than you receive humiliating to your partners?
The reason that I reply to your posts with "raging nonsense" one liners is that I feel tired to repeat the same things over and over again.
Russians are not evil, just like we are not evil, Germans are not evil (at the moment) and - yes, I may be taking the game a bit too far but even the French are not evil. The wars between countries, my dear children, don't start because people are evil. It's the circumstances, conflicts of interests and balance of power that make wars inevitable sometimes.
*sighs*