> often, without me even provoking them, will tell me how superior is is to western values, the same way Russians will also do.

Is this surprising or weighty to you considering that censored brainwashing culture they've grown up in?

> They buy into the anti-Western narrative

They do not "buy into the anti-Western narrative", they are tricked into it.

All of this makes

> The people have chosen an autocratic government and

Really silly.