You describe a relationship when one dominates someone else, or when someone depends on another, so he is forced to obey. This is how a lot of things are arranged in Russia, where children in kindergartens are put on their knees and lined up in the letter "Z"¹, where teachers in schools are forced to tell propaganda to children², and parents should help repair the school³. When you sit shut up at work, and everyone around admires how well the neighboring country is being destroyed. There are simply a huge number of such examples in Russia, and all this is based on people's fear for their lives and the lives of their family. But you forgot one thing: it is not acceptable in Europe, unlike Russia, human rights are respected there, there is a legal regime, corruption is not a generally accepted phenomenon. Therefore, when Putin's officials talk rudely at the international level or openly lie, Europe does not get worse from this, it only shows that it is simply not pleasant to conduct a civilized dialogue with Russia and it is better to end it. Europe should not grovel before Putin, as they have pride and the right to choose, unlike Russian citizens. In all the anti-Russian policy that is growing now and has been in the last decades, the Russian government is solely to blame, and no one except the Russian government has had such a strong influence on anti-Russian sentiment in the world. I think everyone knows the expression "shoot yourself in the foot." So this expression fits very many actions of Putin's officials for many years.

1. https://euroradio.fm/ru/ponimaet-li-zapad-chto-pytaetsya-dogovoritsya-s-zombirovannymi
2. https://meduza.io/feature/2022/03/05/osvoboditelnaya-missiya-na-ukraine-eto-neobhodimost
3. https://rg.ru/2013/10/10/reg-szfo/shkola.html