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Thanks for understanding!

This kind of thing is what made me so hung up on the anti Russia propaganda.
I don't like it when somebody tries to shove a pre-defined opinion down my throat, and that is exactly what this is.

They have zero substance to this Russophobia - it's whipped up out of thin air, and it's very strongly orchestrated. The ownership of media in Sweden is a really concerning. I'm just wondering who's orchestrating it.

I think there is plenty of room for discussions about things that are wrong in Russia. It's certainly not a perfect country that should be let off the hook about everything it doe. But all this anti-Russia talk just makes me defend it even on points where I'd normally have reservations.

And here's another observation: RT is really beginning to get on Washington's nerves. It's the only truly alternative news channel, along with Press TV which I doubt anyone in the US dares to watch.
Press TV was banned from all European satellites, so the only way to see it in Europe now, is to stream online. They used some absolutely ridiculous justification for it that was totally hollow.
I think they will try something similar with RT soon.
There are a few things that got me interested in the Russophobia issues.

1. I've been accused of being anti-American because I respect Putin and like Russian people. According to them, if you don't hate every Russian you see then you must be a communist and anti-American. I don't see any logic for that response.
2. Political hypocrisy. That a civil war makes an election in Syria illegal but not in Ukraine. That harming citizens is illegal unless they're pro-Russian. That our country isn't supporting the new government for economic reasons - except Hunter Biden.
3. I spent some time today reading about the Rwandan Massacre and the bombing of Yugoslavia. They both happened in the 1990's. I was shocked.

Over a million people were killed during the Rwandan Genocide and our country and the UN did nothing to stop it. There wasn't any bombings, no weapons were seized, and the broadcasts that fueled the genocide were never even jammed.
But in Yugoslavia, the UN never passed a resolution to use force but that didn't stop NATO. They bombed Yugoslavia for almost 3 months with depleted uranium shells. Fifteen years later people were still dying of cancer in Serbia.

Neither Rwanda or Yugoslavia was a NATO member and neither country was a threat to any other country. NATO refused to use force against Africans but they used excessive force against the Slavic people of Yugoslavia.
I want someone to explain to me how a few thousand deaths in Yugoslavia was dramatically more serious than over a million deaths in Rawanda. And why it was necessary to poison the entire country of Yugoslavia with depleted uranium.
I also want it explained why our president supports killing civilians all over southeastern Ukraine. Will Obama or the UN condemn the use of phosphorous weapons against the citizens of Luhansk? I'm still waiting to hear about that.

But there is some good news. Russian Americans had a Day of Russia parade with balloons and Ribbons of St. George and everyone thought it was totally cool! At least New Yorkers aren't Russophobic!
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