@firelord111:
to be fair usa mid east strategy is same as russia
Really? How many lives taken by Russian drones? How many wars for democracy started by the Russians? How many countries got destroyed by Russia? How many "colorful" revolution did Russia start in Iran and elsewhere? How many scientists got killed in Iran by Russia? Who imposed sanctions against the Iranian people? Who was paying for the Iraq-Iran war and who asked for it? I may be stupid, but no, no and no, people in our region are dying by the hands of US military, drones, weapons and allies.
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@Monkey:
But recall most of the other examples you used was one person. Not a whole ton of them.
Yeah, and why is that? Because all these journalists of this consortium decided to release data only on Putin's friends. The other examples I gave happened to be already know for their actions. The narrative is clear and the target is there to see. And honestly, except here, everywhere, people are doubting them.
@Monkey:
Ok I posted my source. Here it is again. Where's yours?
Really? And of course, people loving the USA and Obama in middle-east more than Russia is believable to you? And Asia as well? I mean the part of the world where China and India are?
@Monkey:
The European far-right aside from a few places has yet to prove itself exactly mainstream opinion.
The thing you don't want to grasp is that the far right in all Europe is rising and rising fast. They are mainstream now. Even with the complete continuous bashing of the mainstream media, they continue to rise. By the way, in France, one of the targets of these leaks is far-right party: Le Front National, to nobody's surprise, they now know how the mainstream media work.
@Monkey:
People being reluctant to get involved in the Ukrainian crisis isn't remotely the same thing as liking Putin a lot.
I am not saying people like Putin the person. I am saying they like his foreign policies and positions. It's not personal.
In some regions like the middle east and north africa where there is a general sentiment of distrust and disregard of the west,
No, no. It's not a sentiment. It's not a sentiment that people are dying by western weapons, military and alliances. It's not a sentiment that hundreds of thousands of children died form US embargo in Iraq. It's not a sentiment that Israel can wage wars on us whenever they want with the complete financial, technical and political backup form the US and the west. It's not a sentiment that our lives depend on Obama and his drones, these are facts. It's not a sentiment that Colin Powell and the whole bush administration lied in front of the world and killed hundred of thousands in Iraq and destabilized the whole region with no consequences at all. It's not a sentiment that the people in Sahel region of Africa are dying because the west destroyed Libya.
I can understand that it's a sentiment for you, you see these only in news and you may feel sorry for us, but it's not a sentiment at all for us.
And I have said it to you many times, I never watch RT… But you keep on insisting on them. Well western mass media is not any better. You know I can see Fox news and if they lie about their own president, they lie about the democrats, I doubt they will like Putin. The same can be said about any mass media network. Because simply they belong to financial groups, military industry groups, oil companies. Their independance is always questionable. You talk about freedom of speech, but how US congress men and senators cannot criticize Israel. And I am not even talking about media. I mean, for a person to be a president in the US, he or she must swear allegiance to a foreign country. How cool is that? The point the most powerful people in the world are not independent, how can you think the mass media to be independent?