You have a very good point. I do think the ever-expanding list of core issues, the growing sensitivities and nationalism expanding by the day mean that the logic by which they view the world is going to collapse onto itself.

If you dial up the temperature everywhere, it is going to reach a temperature at every target where it does no longer matter if you are the main enemy or merely a wayward middle power. Then everything and everyone comes into the firing zone and all subtly is lost.

And I do indeed think that they do not always know how things work in other political systems. In The Diplomat Andreea Brînză had a list of examples including complaining to the Estonian MFA about the behaviour of an Estonian MEP, which is like complaining to the Kentucky State House about Mitch McConnell.