Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
,,, European countries and media, having stopped thinking for themselves - get the news about Russia from US media and press releases. Instead of, say, going to Russia and drawing their own conclusions!
Why are we getting our news and views about Russia from the USA!,,,
What is the goal of these US led agitators? Divide and conquer? Increase weapons sales...? Something else?
I don't really see it. But whatever it is, it's destructive...
Well, the first part is easy to answer. Consumerism and apathy.
An Apple employee in China offed himself because he knew he could never afford to buy an iPhone. And a lot of people in the US have more than one job. Wages are kept low enough that people don't have very much free time to learn what they really need to know. If I didn't have so much money thrown at me, I probably wouldn't have very much free time to learn anything either. And advertising. Nobody's cool unless they have iPhone, a late model Ferrari, and hangout with celebs, right? Money, money, and more money.
Corporations get all the money, most of the people have to choose between food and insurance, and everyone becomes corporate pawns who care more about products and fame than they do about personal honor or pride.

And apathy. Most people in the US are either Democrats or Republicans because other parties never win. So now those 2 parties = winners and winners must be right. But the international narrative of the 2 parties is almost identical.
Well, people don't have time to learn and the leaders they respect are all saying the same thing. People who have no time to learn - and no way to ever win if they did - will probably just believe whatever their leaders tell them and those views are all over the news.

For the part in bold - whatever the goal is, it's pointless. Russia is highly evolved and very much a part of almost everything happening on the planet. And from the legitimate polls I've seen, the Russian people are very proud of their culture and their country. Imo, it's not "Putin's Russia" that we are seeing - It's "the Russian peoples' Russia". So even if something happened to Putin, I totally believe that Russia would continue very much the same as it is now.
I hope that's true. Despite everything our country and Europe has done, a member here helped me with my Russian grammar today - that's why I edited my signature. They didn't have to help me but they did and that's very cool. Stuff like that is worth a ton more than any iPhone or Ferrari. So the world needs countries like Russia if only to remind us that there's more important stuff in life than consumerism and money.
What's really sad is all the time that's wasted on useless propaganda that could have been used for people and friends.