This immediately made me think of the recent lemm.ee meta post, where several people were not getting what Russian propaganda looks like from the point of view of Baltic states

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    Absolutely typical Solovyov clip 😅 But the meta post made it very clear to me that I don’t actually know how to explain this to people further in the west.

    I mean, I can easily see how Kremlin propaganda means something very different to a person who lives, for example, in the UK, and who has never experienced their significantly bigger neighbors constantly calling for their destruction. Kremlin propaganda might seem like more of a “both sides are bad” situation for them, especially if they already have an anti-capitalist worldview (a worldview which personally I can definitely sympathize with). Meanwhile, it’s really a “one side wants us to literally disappear from the map” existential question for those of us who are close to the Russian border.

    Edit: I really liked this comment by @Marzepansion@programming.dev below that meta post, though