Because they're an authoritarian shithole with a strongman leader who openly murders dissenters, personally controls all branches of government, controls the military and has people arrested just for holding up blank sheets of paper. He can pretend the country is not at war when it clearly is, and suffer no consequence, because nobody can replace him or even censure him without the country completely collapsing. When he eventually dies, the ensuing power vacuum will make the entire country a basket case. It's a dead country walking.

Do you want to make your country such a nightmare country, so you can also cheat like they do?

No, I want my country to have democratic rule of law on the inside (including when dealing with normal criminals of any kind, including murderers).

But when dealing with an outside state-level aggressor, I want my country to be be a cunning, hypocritical, powerful strongman.

The distinction under what mode a certain event should be treated should be pretty straightforward and can be determined using democratic means, e.g. a normal judge ruling "I rule this cable cutting incident to be an act of state-sponsored aggression against our democracy" (which would allow the alphabet agencies, special ops etc to "do their thing" with no repercussions whatsoever.)

for example:

1) a murder happens between a husband and wife, two normies, after lengthy, normal court proceedings the proof who did it is not 100% conclusive, accused person goes free

2) a murder of an anti-russian political dissident happens, a russian ex speznas officer is caught in relation to the event -> he "disappears" one day and the case is closed

I believe this is the only way to "win" this cold war.

Yes Trump was right about everything and Make America Great Again! I also want what Russia has! The biggest ball(room)!