“Another term for that sort of thinking is “hypocrisy”.”
It’s not hypocrisy. It’s very changed context; changed conditions, and “they”, when it comes to elected governments, unlike dicatorships, are different governments with different elected officials. They are not the same elected officials who had a different understanding, for their reasons, in their time.
You Zeepers are losing it as hard as your Ukies are losing territory and battalions.