Soundwave said:
I think what is different and extraordinary about this situation is generally speaking the "major players" (of which there are usually only 2-4 at a time) don't ever directly dare to interfere *directly* in each other's political process. That's really dicey, like I don't think the US is messing with China's elections. Yes, big, powerful countries bully little smaller countries for their self interest, yes politicians who are greedy can be bought ... none of that is new. But a major power nakedly interfering into the election process of another major power ... that is a game changer. This is in a way an extremely dangerous escalation. |
I see your point, but it's really the accumulation of many events leading to this point, in almost all human conflicts small slights lead onto bigger ones, nations save face by upping the anti, this can lead to a point of no return that leads to war
My feeling is that to prevent this from happening the media has a huge responsibility in not picking sides by laying out the unbiased facts, if the media demonizes any side long enough we may never come back from the brink, we can create our own enemies by treating them like enemies, we now have various internet sources that can help with balance, but this may not be enough
I found these two counter propaganda pieces (which could also be seen as propaganda depending on what you want to hear)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoL_Vu5Oqy0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj7yzpeXWEw
