The Mythology of Humiliation

Russian elite talk of humiliation on the one hand, and Western decay on the other. Yet how can a feeble and decaying power humiliate anyone? And why do Western observers readily repeat this Kremlin mantra? Another myth is related to geopolitics: Many experts assert that Ukraine has become an arena for a geopolitical clash between Russia and the West. This doesn't play as well today in Germany where geopolitics was once used to justify Hitler's revanchism.