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This is less about one conflict than about the way prolonged fear and opposition can reshape a country’s mood. It points to a hardened public outlook, where suspicion becomes habit and unity is built against an outside threat. It lands when a society has spent years in crisis and starts defining itself by who it is resisting.
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