I try to capture this sentiment all the time in conversations here in America - we are privileged simply to say, “I feel unsafe” and have it taken seriously when vast swaths of the world would simply reply, “you and everyone else, why are you stating the obvious”
The western world’s calibration on what it means to feel unsafe is so far out of whack that it’s often hard to take seriously.
The phase "Tankie" was coined to describe the communists who still supported the USSR after it deployed tanks to put down the Hungarian revolution, the left wing opposition to aid to Ukraine is generally them (well them and the peace at any cost crowd). Though the tankie logic has additional steps to take into account Russia not being communist, you see NATO opposed communism, and Putin's Russia also opposes NATO thus Putin's Russia is in fact good.
The western world’s calibration on what it means to feel unsafe is so far out of whack that it’s often hard to take seriously.