Right. Russia has been grinding for 50km in eastern Ukraine for 4 years, and now suddenly it wants to attack an alliance 7x its population and 20x its economy. It sounds like yet another excuse to erode liberty than an actual threat to the west.
Of course, this is all irrelevant to the discussion around chat control: authoritarians want authority.
They're 2 weeks away from having ~~nuclear weapons~~ invading Europe! Sorry, we need to scan all of your communications to prepare for this looming threat.
Russia is equally a genuine threat to the west. A threat we can easily fix by helping Ukraine bomb them into economic collapse.
Russia can't even take Ukraine, they're experiencing their own version of the U.S. Vietnam catastrophe.