I don’t know the relevant history to comment on North Korea, but I do think there’s something of a self-reinforcing cycle going on there: the “west” disapproves/punishes the country, which makes the leadership despise them, which drives them further away from western values.
As for how the Russian people feel, I can only hope that the internet is sufficiently unblockable that they’ll figure out the truth eventually. It just won’t help if, after the war, all they see on the internet is how awful everything Russian is.
I don’t know the relevant history to comment on North Korea, but I do think there’s something of a self-reinforcing cycle going on there: the “west” disapproves/punishes the country, which makes the leadership despise them, which drives them further away from western values.
As for how the Russian people feel, I can only hope that the internet is sufficiently unblockable that they’ll figure out the truth eventually. It just won’t help if, after the war, all they see on the internet is how awful everything Russian is.