ArnoldRimmer said:
Exactly. The US acts according to selfish interests, just like any other country. All the other talk about human rights, democracy and what not is mainly just silly talk for the public ear.
That's pretty much my own impression as well. No one here in germany seems to believe that Russia now tries to swallow any more land, but the yellow press like BILD seems to be doing the best they can to drive such fears, for example by showing maps that shall demonstrate in which order they might now take the rest of europe, or portraying Putin as "the next Hitler". It's completely ridiculous! Is the media coverage in switzerland better? |
1st part: I agree, the US just has the better PR-Department. it they attack someone it's to "free" them, if anyone else does it it's invasion...
2nd part: Nah, media coverage here is mostly neutral (at least the nespapers i read), though we had that article about Merkel (was it her?) comparing Putin to Hitler as well.
And our governmet says they condemn the anexion but decided not to go along with the EU sanctions (which imo is a joke anyway), because you know switzerland beeing neutral and all.... but honestly it's is pretty much saying "our western buddies don't like what you're doing so we don't like what you're doing either but we don't really care so go ahead and do it anyway."
Plus we're a direct democracy so voting on something actually means something here, as opposed to the rest of the world where all you do is vote betwen shit party A and shit party B and are stuck with whoever winns, fucking the country over for the next 4 years. ;P
Und wieso zu Teufel schreib ich eigentlich auf Englisch... Naja so verstehen es die Anderen wenigstens auch.
