Russia's Indian useful idiots applauding Lavrov the Liar ignore this fundamental truth about all of human history. None of the above isn't on the menu. Many of them doubtless also applaud their Hindutva fascist PM Modi and the execrable caste propaganda of the Tollywood blockbuster RRR. This is a variant on the Italian expression "la madre degli scemi (utili) e sempre incinta." (the mother of the (useful) idiots is always pregnant.

Here's history's tragic menu from a short extract from Imphal to Indonesia https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/russias-useful-idiots-flee-reality-for-whataboutistan-af0c285e890b:

1. You’re an Indian in Imphal in 1944. Do you fight for the murderous British empire that caused a preventable famine in Bengal and committed mass murder in Amritsar in 1919, or the murderous Japanese empire? Neither is not a choice. Not choosing is a choice (1).

2. You’re a Cherokee survivor living outside Atlanta in August 1864. Do you help the Union Army commanded by General William Tecumseh Sherman, the same genocidal army that gave your people the Trail of Tears, or the Confederate slavers?

3. You’re a Crimean Tatar in Kherson in 1943–44. You’ve survived the Holodomor and the Nazis. You know perfectly well what genocide Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin will commit against your people after kicking the Germans out of Crimea. Choose sides. Choosing neither is not an option and doing nothing = collaboration.

4. You’re a Filipino who saw American atrocities against your people as a child in 1902. Now it’s 1942 and the Japanese invade the Philippines. Choose sides. Not choosing a side is a choice.

5. You’re an Indonesian in Java in 1942 who hates your country’s racist Dutch colonial overlords. Do you go with Sukarno’s choice to side with the Japanese invaders and their “Asia for Asians” promises, knowing full well that Japanese behavior in China foretells mass murder by them in Indonesia?

6. You’re a literate emancipated helot citizen of Athens walking in the hills above Thermopylae. You hate your Spartan former masters, but you are still Greek, know what Athenian democracy means and know a Persian conquest would extinguish it and the Athenian intellectual and political freedom you cherish. Do you tell the Persian army how to flank the 300 Spartans in their path? You’re in between two Hot Gates that force you to choose sides.

7. You’re a Latvian in Riga in early June 1944 whose relatives were deported to Siberia in 1940. You saw how the Germans (and local Latvian Arajs Komando) murdered your Jewish neighbors in December 1941 and know what Soviet “liberation” means.

But you also know about the Nazis’ Generalplan Ost for the extermination of the Baltic peoples. Do you hope for or dread Allied success in Normandy and the Soviets’ Operation Bagration later that month?

These examples make clear that bad vs worse is a permanent feature of the human history menu.