Since the conflicts are not anywhere near their mainland
This. I've talked about it before and agree wholeheartedly. This is why brits put so much emphasis on "The Blitz", despite nazi mass bombing pretty much everyone (Guernica, Stalingrad). This is also why yanks put so much emphasis on Pearl Harbour, despite, well, everything else.
Because it truly frightens them. War is always "overseas". Somewhere else. It's also why they got so spooked by those sillies in the Capitol - they smelled the smoke at home.
By their own admission the armed forces of basically all of NATO countries are in such a bad state that it will take decades to recover
The media keeps telling them that each "Saint javelin" (actual circulating meme) takes a gazillion orcs every time it's used, likewise for every destroyed leopard or Bradley. The leap from this to "sure, it's in Bad shape, but together we shall persevere!" is not that far away.
No european NATO country has the military industrial capacity to compete with Russia
Not everyone in Russia understands this, much less in Europe
The prose is shit and emotional manipulation is pretty obvious. If you read 1984 as a description of a capitalist world, however, it makes significantly more sense
Question to the comrades from China (or those who have been there recently):
What car brands are popular in Chinese cities? Not just Tier 1 cities, but smaller ones?
Asking because there's an ever increasing number of Chinese brands in Russia, yet I keep seeing claims that Chinese citizens themselves prefer German and Japanese brands (Audi, Toyota, etc). I understand that they're most likely made in China anyway, but it seems odd.
Try saying something against the accepted narrative in a mainstream place like reddit and tell me it isn't here already