What's your take on how East Germany collapsed?
What's your take on how Ukraine collapsed?
What's your take on North Korea's stability?
What's your take on the russian internet-trolls that have been confirmed by russian journalists, on how critics of Putin keep dying under suspicious circumstances, how russian soldiers are "going on vacation" in Eastern Ukraine, how Russia is occupying Crimea and parts of Georgia, how (according to the russian polling-institute Lewada) 51% of Russians don't trust the result of the latest election (where United Russia happened to make massive gains amid dropping voter-participation and widespread reports of election-fraud), on Russia passing extremely restrictive protest-laws, on Chechnya (ruled my murdering strongman Kadyrov) giving 99% of the vote to Putin?
What's your take on russian hackers trying to influence US-elections?
What do you make of russian propaganda?
Here's a challenge for you:
Go to the homepage of Russia Today and find ONE story that paints the US in a positive light. Just one.
Go to the homepage of Russia Today and find ONE story that paints Hillary Clinton in a positive light. Just one.
Go to the homepage of Russia Today and find ONE story that paints Donald Trump in a bad light. Just one.
Add it up.
Putin is a Cold War-relic who wants to re-establish the status of Russia as an empire, just as it was during the later years of the Soviet Union. And he believes that Russia is geopolitically under attack. (The Baltic States moving closer to Scandinavia and EU/NATO, NATO building missile-defence in Poland and Romania, Ukraine leaving Russia, Syria in trouble, the price of oil down, anti-russian hysteria in the West...)
The only way to solve this is increased communication, increased sharing of information and talking it out.
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