I’ve known people in Belarus since visiting in 1995. The CIA doesn’t need to do anything to get those people to hate the dictator Lukashenko. He does a fine job of it on his own.
Everybody knows someone in the 1%-10% of Crapistan who want to Westernize.
For heaven’s sake, back in the day, I liked to patronize Hamid Karzai’s restaurant in Cambridge MA.
And I’m sure there’s a White Russian place somewhere that has dynamite draniki and kletski.
What people really want in Elsewheresville is determined by what they DO, not what they SAY.
What you know about the Anschluß, you probably learned from The Sound of Music.
No more. Never again.
The war is here.