Thread: USA government gone rogue (well... not exactly. L.)

Originally Posted by Eric C.

I agree with you that there are no good sides. Every government is evil by its nature, and the current implementations of both EU/US and Russian governments have obvious dark sides. Though, why I think that the EU/US governments are better in some ways is because EU/US leaders at least are ok with people criticizing them, while in Russia and the Russian speaking world it's totally a different story.

No, it's not any better, just different. They are both weeds of the same root.

The problem is that either side is heavily brainwashing the populace and the issues do become confusing since both have different objectives. My point is, there are a lot of posters that all can agree with the wrongdoing by the West but when it comes to Putin/neo-Soviet Russia, you have apologists who are from Russia or apologists to the Putin regime and even Westerners who are sympathetic who have little clue about Russia except for what the neo-Soviet posters here tell them. Thus, there is an imbalance and the reporting is skewed one way. That doesn't mean that one is 'better' than the other, however.

Originally Posted by 14Russian

My point is, there are a lot of posters that all can agree with the wrongdoing by the West but when it comes to Putin/neo-Soviet Russia, you have apologists who are from Russia or apologists to the Putin regime and even Westerners who are sympathetic who have little clue about Russia except for what the neo-Soviet posters here tell them. Thus, there is an imbalance and the reporting is skewed one way.

You point is clearly descrideb by "Putin/neo-Soviet Russia".
People have different opinions and the fact that number of posters who share one opinion is bigget then the number of posters who share the other point can be caused by some pretty random circumstances. So any "imbalance" is hardly explainable imho. But still a person has a right to have his own opinion and right to express it regardless which group he happened to belong to.