We shouldn't be surprised. Propagating one's own model of thinking to everyone is our common trait. Absurdly false belief that "workers and peasants" of Finland

We shouldn't be surprised. Propagating one's own model of thinking to everyone is our common trait. Absurdly false belief that "workers and peasants" of Finland will turn their arms against their capitalist exploiters in 1940 wasn't much different from belief that people of Afghanistan were waiting for Americans to come and help them build freedom and democracy. Everyone falls for that. We always believe that everyone thinks like ourselves. If Russians never experienced democracy they don't believe it's a real thing. If Russians respect and actually love brute force they believe that everyone else does, too, so they actually think that they increase their popularity in the West by demonstrating blatant ignorance of international norms and overt, unrestrained violence.