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>The mid east wars causing mass migration to Europe
Turkish "guest workers" arriving in Germany and Sweden having suicidal empathy goes back to the Cold War my guy.
>the overtrhrowing of all those middle eastern countries also made Putin absolutely paranoid about regime change
Okay, this is the point where you'll be asked to stop.
Putin's paranoia comes from Slobodan Milošević losing power in Serbia. See, the US Dept of State had funded the opposition organization Otpor! and it just so happened that Milošević had changed the rules on how elections worked so he'd stay in power - but he fucked it up and set the elections in 2000 even though his term would only end in 2001, so Serbs voted for Vojislav Koštunica and he got more than 50% of the votes. The government claimed nobody had over 50% of the votes and a second round would be needed, so the blatant electoral fraud triggered the Bulldozer Revolution.
Now, obviously Milošević wasn't a war criminal who got his own country bombed by NATO, and he didn't spend a decade cracking down on opposition, then blatantly change the rules on how presidents and for whatever reason schedule elections right afterwards rather than letting a year pass and the controversy blow over. OBVIOUSLY the CIA is playing a HoI4 style game IRL and just paid off the opposition to revolt against a legitimate leader.
Putin's paranoia doesn't come from middle eastern nations being invaded. What he fears is the US just sending a few million to NGOs and he's instantly deposed because hundreds of thousands of brainwashed Russians will march down the street demanding gay western democracy.