I think they must. They need to justify their atrocities and subjugation somehow. What better way to do that than to insist they are “inferiors” who “deserve it”?

And we often see leadership in the EU accidentally saying the quiet part out loud quite a bit as well.

It’s not just the ruling class, unfortunately.

I think it’s exactly that, the policy towards Russia and China really does seem to be rooted in the idea that they’re just not able to develop on their own.