Western governments hate western citizens.
It’s just true. Very strange. Governments get voted into power by the voters, and then those governments turn on those voters and stomp on them and do favors for foreigners instead. It’s weird, but it’s what’s happening.
“It is a habit of tyrants never to like anyone who has a spirit of dignity and independence. The tyrant claims a monopoly of such qualities for himself; he feels that anybody who asserts a rival dignity, or acts with independence, is threatening his own superiority and the despotic power of his tyranny; he hates him accordingly as a subverter of his own authority. It is also a habit of tyrants to prefer the company of aliens to that of citizens at table and in society; citizens, they feel, are enemies, but aliens will offer no opposition.”
Aristotle