As a Mexican I can say the average person here believes the US is a utopia where everyone is rich, owns a huge suburban house, has material abundance, public schools are great, there’s no crime, and you can get all of this off a blue collar worker’s wage.
This was one of the deciding factor in socialism annihilation in Europe. We were flooded with such propaganda about USA and mostly West Germany. People simply did not known such social stratification as a concept, the gap between poorest and richest income was like 1 to 6, they thought everyone lives like top labour aristocracy in the FRG…
The more i think of it, it is clear that the socialism did not lost Cold War or the economic war. Socialism lost culture and propaganda war, they sown the seeds of their own destruction for allowing the subtle lies to seep.
It totally do. I live in Poland, which is crazy enough for me to inspire my username, but i never got even close in the number of “wtf” moments about any other country as for the US. Especially that since 30 years we are constantly get our heads drilled it’s a country of freedom, democracy, opulence, equality and opportunity.
A more stable, long term politic would be to integrate the national diversity in Ukraine like Switzerland, Canada or Spain do, with region decentralization, respect for all the languages/cultures, etc.
The one thing they needed to do to avoid most troubles is to do nothing even after 2014 coup. But no, they just immediately had to try to crush russian minority (and russian speaking Ukrainians) culturally, politically, economically and soon even militarily. Fucking nazis just can’t stop.
Doubt it honestly, Russia is not barbaric society that demand 100 deaths for one, unlike nazis or muricans. Seeing the previous war course, they will widen the attack range to more infrastructure in such case. So the civilians will suffer but i very seriously doubt russian army will retaliate with randomly bombing cities.
Politically speaking, stochastic terrorism of this kind is beneficial to the ruling class - some level of it will turn the attention from their normal business (which is the cause of the terrorism in the first place) and it also always raise acceptation of police oppression, therefore it empowers the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
There’s also personal level - just how many of people supposedly having to defend the people are psychos or fascists themselves who have similar worldview but who have an outlet for their hate in work? Let’s just mention the 40% or the dog killings as small examples (and that’s just the police, not to mention letters or military).
In short - there is probably no conspiration. It does not have to be, because it is the facet of dictatorship of bourgeoisie and it work just like it - shootings are the consequences of unbearable life.
Yes i did, they were incredibly based.