Yogi, I completely agreed with you. But you are wrong in one regard CNN, ABC, NBC, CBC are better then “Pravda”. I used to live in old Soviet Union and everybody knew that you almost never could find truth (Pravda in Russian) in newspaper “Pravda”. Here in US, most of people believe mass media. Then mass media pushes public opinion to an extreme, and because our politicians like to watch polls they take action.
I was really surprised, when I came to US in 91, that average J6P (Joe 6 Pack) hated Russians. In contrary most of people in Russia admired US then. Mass media makes people think “America uber ales” (no offence indented). We are really dambed down by mass media and school system (my daughter is a prime example). In minds of most of Americans D-day was the turning point of WII. They have no idea about Stalingrad, Kursk (still biggest tank battle in history), they do not know that 80% of German casualties were on the Eastern Front. Most of them could not find Yugoslavia on the map. So, CNN is mach more powerful then “Pravda”.
Being US citizen and being born in Belorus (former USSR) I get beat up from the both sides. I do not support Serbia because of mass killing of civilians (most of Russians do not like mass killings either) and I also do not support US involvement in civil war and aggression against foreign country. We behave like a high school bully.
I wonder were CNN was when Serbs were cleansed from Krajna in 95, when Russians were thrown out of Georgia, when Russian minority cleansed by means of discrimination and hate campaigns from Latvia, Litvenia, and Estonia. We even support regimes in Baltic countries, countries that now make local nazi helpers their heroes. What about Turkey? They still killing Kurds, who are trying to create their own country. US even helped to catch Kurd's leader recently. What about Sudan, Congo, East Timor, China?
Remember Cuban crises, when US were faced with threat comparable to what USSR used to have all the time. Most of people here just do not get it. It would take 6-8 minutes from missile lunch in Germany to impact on city I used to live in. You know what most of people here say in response: “We are the good guys”
Apparently most of people do not realize that Coca –Cola, Levi's jeans, western movies, music, Disney Land, and Xerox machines won Cold War. When people can live good they have much less reasons to fight. Unfortunately now we are headed for another Cold War and creation of military blocks to balance NATO. Russian war games that in progress now are biggest since cold war. Bismarck once said: “ Do not wake up Russian Bear.”
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