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Originally Posted by Sluggo
I would guess its an extensional paranoia from being invaded by continental powers for a millennia+... So the social contract between Russians and their leaders is to not let the neighbors invade and do medieval stuff to us and we wont care so much if you limit our freedoms a 'tiny' bit. Problem is when you are thinking/worrying about terrors being done onto yourself you tend to do the same to any threats.
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I suspect you are right and this is a big part of the mentality. I also think that the old guard folks in Russia saw this mentality changing and saw it as a threat to their power. Ukrainians in particular, because they share some history with Russia, but were overwhelmingly starting to look West. If Russians started to look West, it would challenge that social contract.
In other news, a Russian cruise missile entered Polish airspace for 39 seconds.
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/russia-...tems.%E2%80%9D