My bride and I were legal residents in Germany for decades, before retirement and returning to this lovely sea island along the Southeast coast. No hovel.
During my time working all across Europe (and elsewhere) I personally came across no Europeans who expressed your concern. Not in Germany, after the Mauerfall. Not in the Netherlands, some of whom expressed their remembered "concerns" of the Germans, certainly not in Sweden whose "concerns" today have more to do with the government-sponsored Hijrah ongoing, and not n France and Belgium where I worked on many occasions.
I even worked with a Russian legal resident of Germany, there and in visits to Israel, wherein he joked more about the KGB and relished being a legal, long-term German resident.
So much depends on one's experiences. The officially non-NATO war between non-NATO Ukraine and non-NATO Russia sparks lots of heat on these threads, but when this is over -- all wars end -- then the historians will come to sort it all out. however it ends.
My bride and I trust President Trump and his adminstration in dealing with all this. Surprises and all.
Were you in the military?