my family in law are Russian and most of them fully support the invasion of Ukraine.
observing the mental gymnastics has been interesting and quite scary.
they watch the TV and believe what it says. anything that would paint the russian army in a bad light is washed away as 'fake news'. any attempt at sharing alternative information is immediately dismissed as a western psyop.
in your analogy, they believe, the russian agressors, that they are the resistance, standing up against the west and the nazi regime in kiev that is being paid by America.
it's all total nonsense of course , it was just Putin trying to do a Crimea 2 and put his mate yanukovich back in power, the rest is just a fabrication to justify it.
Russia were also the ones funding and supporting the proxy war in Donbass.
but back to the analogy, I now believe the reason star wars was so popular, is because everyone sees themselves as the just and noble in their own narrative of the world.
we all think we're the rebels , but unlike Russia , the history books will , I believe, show us bitcoiners to be on the right side