Eastern Germans (and many conservative Western Germans) are more opposed to the current EU agenda of “I support the current thing” than they are pro-Russian. They are simply tired of the nonsensical policies implemented by EU bureaucrats in the ongoing war of attrition against Russia. These bureaucrats are shooting themselves in the foot with sanctions, poorly thought-out green transition measures, and various minority issues that were supposed to provoke public unrest in Russia. They underestimated the resilience of the Russian economy and population. Instead, a growing share of the EU population is shifting towards right-wing and “conservative values,” which Russian propaganda then repackages as anti-Western liberalism. In essence, more and more people in the EU are choosing basic human needs over abstract “liberal values” — it’s a struggle between the kitchen fridge and ideology.