Jeff, all this reminds me of a recent joke:
2 New Youk jews (of course they are of Slavic background) talk about the "war" in Ukraine.
The first says - "Moshe, have you heard whats going on? The Ukra inians are at war with the Russians!"
Second - "Oi vey, and whats going on there, Itzik?"
Itzik - "Well so far the Ukranians lost 5 military planes, 10 helicopters, 30 tanks, 1000 soldiers, 2 mil sqaure km of land and 3.5 mil popualtion"
Moshe - "And the Russians?"
Itzik - "The Russians still havent turned up!"
All this is to point out that saying out loudly that countries like Russia prepare for an attack is a bit funny.
Russians are being awakened by the deafening noise of emergency war sirens
Thats funny too =) I mean its ok to paint a picture, but where do you take this information from?
Yes, historically our country is an agressor (like the US, GB, Germany, France). Bu ti think we should all stand up and thank loudly to Putin for bieng clever enough to turn the other cheek for the last 2 years to all that the West has been doing.
Its redicoulos to see Russia as an agressor in this situation.
A point of view, from a person born in the Crimea, who spend 20 years in the west (inlcuding time in the Israeli army) and who lives in Russia today.
Not to the average American if he heard it on TV. If it's on the news it must be true.
I am assuming that steem is not full of averages Americans =)
Well the same applies to Russia! We have poeple watching our first chanell just to become TV and propoganda zombies...
In the restaurnat field we say - "if you had a craft burger and a craft beer, but didnt post to instagram.. it NEVER happened!" )))
"There's no truth in The News and no news in The Truth" - I tried to find out how old that saying was but Google failed me. I always thought Russians were ahead of the rest of the world when it came to distrust of their mainstream media. US distrust of mainstream news has grown but its credibility is still disturbingly high. I don't know about the overall steem demographics but I'd definitely agree that people reading an article like this, whatever their country, aren't average.
Где мороженое? – I know very little Russian but that might come in handy one day.
That might well be true. It all started about 50 years ago in Russia, people ceasing to care about what the government-run media of that time had to say. So it's a tradition that spans several generations now.
And in the US, when has the distrust arisen? Is it a post-Iraqi war thing?
I also liked the passage about awakening by emergency war sirens:)
Probably Jeff didn't invent this so I'm curious what media have such a great imagination!