Wait, what? That's not at all a logical consequence or implication. Westerners totally advocate self-determination for Russians. All Russians. Putin is an authoritarian. Westerners advocate Russians pursuing the path of democratic self-determination, which is why people in the West produce podcast episodes likes this about Russian democrats: https://www.parthenonpodcast.com/history-unplugged-podcast/what-if-tsarist-russia-hadnt-gone-communist-revolutionaries-like-boris-savinkov-tried-to-accomplish-this